AE 654k - Egypt - wilderness - Canaan

AE 654k
In a word, a man must first enrich the memory with knowledges,
afterwards by these his understanding must be cultivated,
and finally the will.
The memory belongs to the natural man,
the understanding to the rational,
and the will to the spiritual.
This is the way of man's reformation and regeneration.
This is why the sons of Israel were first led into Egypt,
afterwards into the wilderness to undergo temptations,
and finally into the land of Canaan,
for as has been said,
they were to represent the church from its first rise to the last end.
Their abiding and sojourning in Egypt
represented the instruction of the natural man;
their wanderings forty years in the wilderness
represented the temptations by which the rational man is formed;
and the land of Canaan, into which there were finally brought,
represented the church, which regarded in itself is spiritual.