4128. And Jacob pitched his tent in the mountain. That this signifies the state of the love in which was the good now meant by “Jacob,” is evident from the signification of a “tent,” as being the holy of love (see n. 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312); and of “pitching a tent,” as being the state of that love; and from the signification of “mountain,” as being good (as above, n. 4117); here, the good now meant by “Jacob” (concerning which see above, n. 4073).

1101. May God enlarge Japheth, signifies the enlightenment of this church. In the literal sense “to enlarge” is to extend the boundaries, but in the internal sense it is to be enlightened; for enlightenment is the enlargement, as it were, of the boundaries of wisdom and intelligence. As in Isaiah:

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations (Isaiah 54:2),

meaning enlightenment in spiritual things. The man of the external church is “enlarged” when he is instructed in the truths and goods of faith; and as he is in charity, he is thereby more and more confirmed; and besides, the more he is instructed, the more is the cloud of his intellectual part dispersed—of that intellectual part, that is to say, in which are charity and conscience.