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Und die Söhne Josephs, die ihm in Ägypten geboren wurden, waren zwei Seelen. Aller Seelen des Hauses Jakob, die nach Ägypten kamen, waren siebzig. (Nach der Alexandrinischen Übersetzung, welche in v 20 noch einen Sohn und einen Enkel des Manasse sowie zwei Söhne und einen Enkel des Ephraim erwähnt, sind es 75 Seelen. Vergl. Apg. 7,14)
6043. 'And say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me' means that the truths and forms of good which the Church possesses are to be introduced [into that knowledge]. This is clear from the representation of the sons of Israel, to whom his 'brothers' refers here, as spiritual truths within the natural, dealt with just above in 6040; from the meaning of 'father's house' as the forms of good there, also dealt with just above, in 6041; from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan' as the Church, dealt with in 3686, 3705, 4447, 4517, 5136; and from the meaning of 'coming' to Joseph, or to Egypt where Joseph was, as being introduced into the Church's factual knowledge, dealt with above in 6004, 6018. Regarding the introduction of the truths the Church possesses into the factual knowledge present in the natural, see above in 6023, and regarding the joining together of them, below in 6047.
