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dom as remained there, that Providence led, first Joseph, and then Israel and his family, down into Egypt. But as the Israelitish was not to be a spiritual church, but only the representative of a spiritual church, it was principally for the sake of making their history representative that the children of Israel went down there. And it was to represent that Jesus our Saviour was to be initiated into science and wisdom, such as Egypt represented, that He was carried down there when a child; for the Lord's outward history was representative of His inward life.