6783. 'And he said, Why have you hastened to come today?' means a perception that now it was a certain joining together. This is clear from the meaning of 'said', in the historical narratives of the Word, as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'hastening to come' as a certain joining together. For the meaning of 'hastening' as certainty, see 5284, and for 'coming' as a joining together, immediately above in 6782. What is meant here is not a certain joining together that was effected through the daughters' hastening to come to their father but one that was effected through truth that the law from God possessed, represented by 'Moses'. This is what was perceived.