AC 1461, 1462 - 'Egypt' and 'sojourn'

AC 1461
'And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn'
(Genesis 12:10)
means instruction in knowledges from the Word.
. . . 'Egypt' means knowledge comprised of memory-knowledges,
and 'sojourning' receiving instruction . . ..
. . . the Lord received instruction in childhood
as anybody else does . . ..
The external person is corporeal and sensuous;
nor does it receive anything celestial and spiritual
unless knowledges are implanted in it, as in ground;
for in these (knowledges)
celestial things can have their recipient vessels.
But the knowledges must be from the Word.
Knowledges from the Word are such
that they are open from the Lord Himself;
for the Word itself is from the Lord through heaven,
and the Lord's life is in all things of the Word,
both in general and in particular,
although it does not so appear in the external form.
So it may be seen
that in His childhood
the Lord did not will to imbue (permeate, fill) Himself
with any other knowledges than those of the Word,
which was open to Him . . . from Jehovah Himself, His Father,
with whom He was to be united and become One;
and this the more,
because nothing is said in the Word
that does not in its inmosts have regard to Him,
and that has not first come from Him;
for the Human Essence was only a something
that was added to His Divine Essence
that was from eternity.

AC 1462 [6]
The Lord's being taken into Egypt when He was an infant
had no other meaning than that which here is meant by Abram,
though He was also taken there
so that He might fulfill all things that had taken place
and were representative of Himself.
The passage of Jacob and his sons down into Egypt
represented in the inmost sense
nothing other
than the Lord's initial instruction in knowledges from the Word.