AC 4987, 4989 - the internal sense

AC 4987
The things in the internal sense are . . . continuous
and flowing from one state of a thing into another;
but when one state terminates,
and another of importance succeeds,
this is indicated by "it was" or "it came to pass;"
and a change of state less important by "and."
This is the reason why these expressions so frequently occur.

AC 4989 [2]
When a person comes into the other life,
as he does immediately after death,
if he is one of those who are taken up into heaven,
he will then know
that he retains nothing of the historicals of the Word,
and indeed knows nothing about Joseph,
nor about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
but only about the spiritual and Divine things
which he had learned from the Word
and had applied to his life.
Such things . . . are what are inwardly contained in the Word,
and are called its internal sense.