AC 7555, 7556 - Gather in Your Cattle (Exodus 9:19-21)

AC 7555

"And now send, gather in your cattle,"
means that the truth of good should be collected;
"and all that you have in the field,"
means which is of the church;
"every man and beast,"
means interior and exterior good;
"that shall be found in the field,"
means that is of the church;
"and shall not be brought to the house,"
means which is not reserved;
"the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die,"
means that they shall be quite destroyed by falsity;
"he that feared the word of Jehovah
of the servants of Pharaoh,"
means those things in the natural mind
which were of the Lord;
"made his servants and his cattle flee unto the houses,"
means that they were stored up
and reserved in the interiors;
"and he that did not set his heart
unto the word of Jehovah,"
means the things which were not from the Lord;
"left his servants and his cattle in the field,"
means that they were not stored up and reserved.

AC 7556

The subject treated of in this verse
and in the two following,
is the good and truth which are reserved by the Lord,
even with the evil;
for the good and truth
which have not been adjoined to evils and falsities,
are not vastated;
but are stored up by the Lord in the interiors,
and are afterward brought forth for use.
The reservation of good and truth
with a person by the Lord
is meant by "remains" in the Word.