7163. Verses 22-23 And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, Lord, why have You done ill to this people? Why is this, that You have sent me? And since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done ill to this people; and You have not delivered Your people at all.

'And Moses returned to Jehovah and said' means complaint from the law of God. 'Lord, why have You done ill to this people?' means that those governed by truths and forms of good are molested excessively by falsities. 'Why is this, that You have sent me?' means when yet the law going forth from God seems to promise something different. 'And since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name' means when the command based on matters contained in the law of God presented itself to those steeped in falsities. 'He has done ill to this people' means that at that time those governed by the Church's truths and forms of good seemingly suffered harm from the falsities that had been introduced. 'And You have not delivered Your people at all' means that they have not been released from the state of molestations by falsities.