In Exodus 16:1, this signifies the good from which proceeds the truth with spiritual people after regeneration. (Arcana Coelestia 8399)

In Exodus 24:12, this signifies elevation into the Lord's presence. Mount Sinai also signifies represents the Word, which is from the Lord and is the Lord, thus also heaven. (Arcana Coelestia 9415) In the following verse, this signifies the Law, or the Divine Truth proceeding from the Lord's Divine Good. (Arcana Coelestia 9420)

In Exodus 19:23, this signifies that those of the spiritual kingdom cannot rise to the celestial kingdom. (Arcana Coelestia 8835)

(Mga Sanggunian: Arcana Coelestia 8753; Exodus 19:1)

4969. 'Who made him go down there means a descent from this simple good to that factual knowledge. This is clear from the representation of 'the Ishmaelites who made him go down' as those in whom simple good is present, dealt with immediately above in 4968, and from the meaning of Egypt, to which 'there' refers here, as factual knowledge in general, dealt with just above in 4964, 4966. The expression 'going down' is used because the subject is factual knowledge which is exterior. For in the Word passing from interior things to exterior ones is described as 'going down', and passing from exterior to interior ones as 'going up', see 3084, 4539.