6334. Verses 1-2 And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather together, and I will tell you what will happen to you at the end of days. Assemble, and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hear ¹ Israel your father.

'And Jacob called his sons' means organizing the truths of faith and the forms of the good of love in the natural. 'And said, Gather together' means the existence together of all in general. 'And I will tell you what will happen to you at the end of days' means the nature of the Church's state within the order in which they were arranged at that time. 'Assemble' means that they should arrange themselves into order. 'And hear, O sons of Jacob' means the truths and forms of good in the natural. 'And hear Israel your father' means a foretelling regarding them made by spiritual good, in the highest sense the Lord's foresight.

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3775. 'Jacob said to them' means the truth of good. This is clear from the representation of 'Jacob' as the Lord's Divine Natural; dealt with already. Since every single thing, wherever it may be, has reference to good and truth, 3166, 3513, 3519, so also does everything in the natural; and since during a person's regeneration good and truth in the natural exist in a different state at the beginning from the state in which they exist during the process of regeneration and at the end of it, 'Jacob' therefore represents truth and good present in the natural, in a relationship to each other determined by the particular state; here he represents the truth of good. But to explain their varying relationship to each other every time they occur would cast the subject into obscurity, especially with people who have no distinct concept of truth and good, let alone of truth through which good comes, and of truth which stems from good.