Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 392916. Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and ye shall bebound, and your words shall be proved, whether there be truth withyou; or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.17. And he shut them up in custody three days.18. And Joseph said unto them in the third day, This do, and live; Ifear God.19. If ye be upright, let one of your brethren be bound in the house ofyour custody; and go ye, bring produce for the famine of your houses.20. And bring your youngest brother unto me; and your words shallbe verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.21. And they said a man to his brother, We are surely guiltyconcerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when hebesought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come untous.22. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not unto you,saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hearken?Moreover, behold his blood is searched for.23. And they knew not that Joseph heard them; for there was aninterpreter between them.24. And he turned about from upon them, and wept; and hereturned to them, and spoke unto them, and took Simeon from them,and bound him before their eyes.25. And Joseph commanded, and they filled their vessels with corn,and to restore their silver everyone’s into his sack, and to give themprovision for the way; and he did thus to them.26. And they lifted their produce upon their asses, and went thence.27. And one opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, andhe saw his silver; and behold it was in the mouth of his bag.28. And he said unto his brethren, my silver is restored, and lo it iseven in my bag; and their heart went forth, and they trembled a manto his brother, saying, What is this that God hath done to us?29. And they came unto Jacob their father to the land of Canaan,and told him all that had befallen them, saying,30. The man, the lord of the land, spoke hard things with us, andtook us for spies of the land.31. And we said unto him, We are upright; we are no spies.32. We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and theyoungest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.