AC 1577, 1580 - The Workings of the External and Internal Man

AC 1577

Let there be no contention, I pray, between me and thee.
(Genesis 13:8)

With no man
have the internal man and the external ever been united;
nor could they be united,
nor can they be,
but with the Lord only,
for which cause also He came into the world.
With men who have been regenerated,
it appears as if they were united;
but these belong to the Lord;
for the things which agree are the Lord's,
but those which disagree are man's. 

AC 1580

Is not the whole land before thee?
(Genesis 13:9)

That this signifies all good,
is evident from the signification of "land" in a good sense,
and here of the land of Canaan,
which is the celestial,
and therefore also good.
The internal man here addresses the external,
but those things in the external man which disagree;
as a man is wont to do
when he perceives some evil in himself
from which he desires to be separated,
as is the case in temptations and combats.
For it is known to those
who have been in temptations and combats,
that they perceive in themselves things which disagree;
from which, so long as there is combat,
they cannot be separated;
but still they desire separation,
and sometimes to such a degree
that they are angry with the evil, and desire to expel it.
These are the things that are here signified.