(Genesis 42:29.) The things which befall are the things which were of providence, or which were provided, because everything which befalls, or happens, in other words what is called fortuitous, and is ascribed to chance, or to fortune, is of providence. (Arcana Coelestia 5508)

'Look not back behind thee,' as in Genesis 19:17, means that Lot, who represents the good of charity, should not look to matters of doctrine. 'To look up,' is to look to celestial things. In Genesis 18:22, looking signifies thinking because seeing denotes understanding.

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