6833. 'And he saw, and behold, the bramble bush was burning with fire' means a recognition that true factual knowledge was full of the good of God's love. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing' as recognizing, dealt with in 2150, 3764, 4567, 4723, 5400; from the meaning of 'a bramble bush' as true factual knowledge, dealt with immediately above in 6832; and from the meaning of 'fire' as God's love, dealt with in 934 (end), 4906, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, so that 'burning with fire' means to be full of the good of God's love.

4277. 'And he touched the hollow of his thigh' means where celestial-spiritual good is joined to natural good meant by 'Jacob'. This is clear from the meaning of 'the thigh' as conjugial love, and consequently as all celestial and spiritual love, since these are derived from conjugial love as offspring from their parent, dealt with in 3021; and from the meaning of 'the hollow' or socket or cavity of it - that is to say, of the thigh - as the place where the joining together exists, and here therefore where celestial-spiritual good is joined to natural good meant by 'Jacob'. But no one can be told anything about that conjunction unless he knows first of all what celestial-spiritual good, meant by 'Israel', is, and what natural good, meant by 'Jacob', is. It will be told below at verse 28 where Jacob, who at that point is named Israel, is the subject and also further on where Jacob's descendants are the subject.