Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 393033. And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall Iknow that ye are upright; let one of your brethren remain with me, andtake for the famine of your houses, and go.34. And bring your youngest brother unto me, then shall I know thatye are no spies, but that ye are upright; I will give you your brother,and ye shall go about trading in the land.35. And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, and beholdeveryone’s bundle of silver was in his sack; and they saw the bundles oftheir silver, they and their father, and they were afraid.36. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved,Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin; all thesethings be come upon me.37. And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons if Ibring him not to thee; give him upon my hand, and I will bring himunto thee again.38. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brotheris dead, and he only is left; and mischief will befall him in the waywherein ye shall go, and ye will make my gray hairs go down in sorrowto the grave.THE CONTENTS5396a. 1 In the latter part of the last chapter the subject treated ofwas the influx and conjunction of the celestial of the spiritual withthe memory-knowledges in the natural; and now the subject treatedof is the influx and conjunction of the celestial of the spiritual withthe truths of faith therein which are of the church.5397. First is described the endeavor to appropriate these truthsby means of the memory-knowledges of the church, which are“Egypt,” and without the intermediate, which is “Benjamin,”together with truth from the Divine, which is “Joseph”; but in vain,wherefore they were sent back and some good of natural truth wasgiven freely.