1698. That 'they took Lot and his acquisitions, Abram's brother's son, and went their way' means that apparent goods and truths, which are not in themselves goods and truths, took possession of the External Man and everything there is clear from the meaning of 'Lot' who, as stated and shown frequently already, means the Lord's Sensory or External Man; indeed here he means the External Man as regards apparent goods and truths, which here are 'Lot's acquisitions'. That those goods and truths bore the appearance in early childhood of being goods and truths but were not in fact so has been explained already. But that those goods and truths were gradually purified, by means indeed of the conflicts that constitute temptations, becomes clear from what has been stated about temptations.