1167、在圣言中，“迦南”或迦南人表示脱离内在敬拜的仪式或外在敬拜。这从大量经文，尤其历史部分的经文清楚看出来。由于当雅各的子孙被领进那地时，迦南人实行这种敬拜，所以他们的灭绝是被允许的。但就圣言的内义而言，迦南人表示所有拥有脱离内在敬拜的外在敬拜的人。由于犹太人和以色列人比其他人更具有这种性质，所以在圣言的预言部分，“迦南人”尤指他们，这一点仅从下面两节经文就能看出来；诗篇：
他们流无辜的血，就是自己儿女的血，把他们祭祀迦南的偶像，那地就被血污秽了。他们因自己的作为就被玷污了，在行为上犯了邪淫。（诗篇106:38-39）
此处“流儿女的血”在内义上表示他们灭绝了一切信之真理和仁之良善；“把儿女祭祀迦南的偶像”表示通过脱离内在敬拜的外在敬拜（这种敬拜无非是偶像崇拜）亵渎信和仁的事物。因此，“他们因自己的作为就被玷污了，在行为上犯了邪淫”。以西结书：
主耶和华对耶路撒冷如此说。你的根源，你的出身，是在迦南地；你父亲是亚摩利人，你母亲是赫人。（以西结书16:3）
此处经上明确说明，他们属于迦南地。至于“迦南”表示脱离内在敬拜的外在敬拜，可参看前文（1078，1094节）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1167. Canaan (or a Canaanite) in the Word symbolizes ritual or outward forms of worship separated from inward, as many passages illustrate, especially in the narrative books. Because Canaanites practiced this kind of worship at the period when the children of Jacob invaded their land, their obliteration was permitted; but in the Word's inner meaning, Canaanites mean everyone who practices outward worship separated from inward. Since Jews and Israelites engaged in this kind of worship more than anyone else, Canaan refers specifically to them in the prophetic parts of the Word, as the two following passages alone show. In David:
They have shed innocent blood — the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan — and the land has been profaned with blood. And they have been polluted by their works and have prostituted themselves in their deeds. (Psalms 106:38-39)
[2] In a deeper sense, shedding the blood of their sons and daughters means that they blotted out all religious truth and all the good effects of neighborly love. Sacrificing their sons and daughters to the idols of Canaan symbolizes profaning the attributes of faith and charity through outward worship detached from inward, which is the same as idolatry. In this way they polluted themselves with their works and prostituted themselves in their deeds. In Ezekiel:
This is what the Lord Jehovih has said to Jerusalem: "Your trading and your birth origins belong to the land of Canaan. Your father is an Amorite and your mother a Hittite." (Ezekiel 16:3)
This says explicitly that they came from the Canaanite land.
For the symbolism of Canaan as external worship detached from internal, see what appears above in 1078, 1094.
Potts(1905-1910) 1167
1167. That by "Canaan," or "the Canaanite," when mentioned in the Word, are signified rituals, that is, the things of external worship separated from internal, is evident from very many passages, especially in the historicals. Because the Canaanites were of this character at the time when the sons of Jacob were introduced into their land, it was permitted that they should be exterminated. But in the internal sense of the Word, all those are meant by "Canaanites" who have external worship separated from internal. And as the Jews and Israelites more than others were of this nature, they specifically are signified by "Canaanites" in the prophetical Word, as may be seen from these two passages only:
They have shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was profaned with bloods, and they were defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings. (Ps. 106:38-39). "To shed the blood of sons and daughters," here signifies in the internal sense that they extinguished all truths of faith and goods of charity; "to sacrifice sons and daughters to the idols of Canaan" signifies to profane the things which are of faith and charity by external worship separate from internal, which is nothing else than idolatrous. Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings. In Ezekiel:
Thus saith the Lord Jehovih unto Jerusalem, Thy tradings and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite (Ezek. 16:3). Here they are plainly said to be of the land of Canaan. (That "Canaan" signifies external worship separated from internal may be seen above, n. 1078, 1094.)
Elliott(1983-1999) 1167
1167. In the Word 'Canaan' or the Canaanite means forms of ritual or external worship separated from internal. This is clear from very many places, especially in historical sections. This being the character of the Canaanites at the time that the sons of Jacob were brought into the land, permission was given to wipe them out. But in the internal sense of the Word Canaanites are used to mean all people whose worship is external separated from internal. And because this was pre-eminently true of the Jews and Israelites, they specifically are meant in the prophetic Word, as becomes clear from the following two places alone: In David,
They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was profaned with blood.a They became unclean by their acts, and committed whoredom in their doings. Ps 106:38, 39.
Here 'pouring out the blood of sons and daughters' means in the internal sense that they destroyed every truth of faith and good of charity. 'Sacrificing sons and daughters to the idols of Canaan' means profaning matters of faith and charity by means of external worship separated from internal, which is nothing else than idolatrous worship. So 'they became unclean by their acts and committed whoredom in their doings'. In Ezekiel,
Thus said the Lord Jehovih to Jerusalem, Your tracings and your nativity are of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. Ezek 16:3.
Here it is stated explicitly that they belonged to the land of Canaan. As regards 'Canaan' meaning external worship separated from internal, see what has appeared already in 1078,1094.
Latin(1748-1756) 1167
1167. Quod per 'Canaanem seu Canaanitam' significentur in Verbo ritualia, seu externi cultus separati ab interno, ex permultis locis constat, cumprimis in historicis, qui quia tales erant tempore cum filii Jacobi intromissi in terram, permissum fuit ut exstirparentur; sed in sensu interno Verbi omnes illi per Canaanitas intelliguntur qui externum cultum separatum ab interno habent; et quia prae ceteris Judaei et Israelitae tales fuerunt, in Verbo prophetico ii in specie significantur, ut solum ex his binis locis constare potest, apud Davidem, Fuderunt sanguinem innocentem, sanguinem filiorum et filiarum suarum, quos sacrificabant idolis Canaanis; et profanata est terra sanguinibus; et immundi facti operibus suis, scortatique sunt factis suis, Ps. cvi 38, 39; ibi 'fundere sanguinem filiorum et filiarum' in sensu interno est quod exstinxerint omnia vera fidei et bona charitatis; 'filios et filias sacrificare idolis Canaanis' significat illa quae sunt fidei et charitatis profanare per cultum externum separatum ab interno, qui non nisi quam idololatricus est, ita 'immundi facti operibus suis et scortati factis suis': apud Ezechielem, Sic dixit Dominus Jehovih Hierosolymae, Negotiationes tuae, et natales tui de terra Canaane; pater tuus Emoraeus, et mater tua Hittaea, xvi 3;ubi aperte dicuntur a terra Canaanaea. Quod 'Canaan' significet cultum externum separatum ab interno, videantur quae prius n. 1078, 1094.