7678. “摩西就向埃及地伸杖” 表神之真理的能力向侵扰者的整个属世层的行使. 这从 “伸杖” 和 “埃及地” 的含义, 以及 “摩西” 的代表清楚可知: “伸杖” 是指能力的行使, 如前所述 (7673节); “摩西” 是指神的真理 (参看6752, 7004, 7010, 7382节); “埃及地” 是指侵扰者的属世层, 如前所述 (7674节). “摩西的手” 所描述的神性能力是神之真理的能力. 一切能力属于真理 (参看3091, 5623, 6344, 6423, 6948节); 事实上, 从神性良善发出的神性真理具有这样的性质: 它创造了宇宙万物. 在约翰福音中, “道 (即圣言)” 表示这真理:

太初有道 (圣言), 道与神同在, 道就是神. 万物是藉着祂造的. (约翰福音 1:1, 3)

这解释了为何神迹通过摩西来行, 因为摩西代表神性真理. 大多数人以为圣言或神性真理仅仅是耶和华所说的话和祂吩咐所要如此行的事, 仅此而已. 而事实上, 它是本质存在本身, 万物皆从它并通过它而存在并持续存在. 从祂发出的本质存在, 和由这本质存在所产生的万物的显现就是 “神性真理” 所表示的. 这一点可通过天使来说明. 一个仁与信的气场从天使发出, 它明显能感觉得到, 还产生奇妙的效果. 由此可对从主的神性良善发出的神性真理形成某种概念.

In the Bible, the wind represents the power of the Lord working on us through the heavens. The Lord is love itself, and by extending His love He created the energy that created the universe, the energy that still sustains and empowers us. That love, and the wisdom that is its form, can act on us more or less directly depending on our spiritual states. A powerful wind indicates a more direct force.

It's interesting to note that the sun corresponds to the Lord, that its heat corresponds to the Lord's love and its light to the Lord's wisdom. In the natural world, the sun's heat causes wind by warming the air. In the spiritual world, the Lord's love causes spiritual wind by acting through heaven.

The Bible also talks about four winds, an east wind and a "wind of the sea." The four winds stand for the whole of the impact of the Lord's love. The east wind is withering, devastating – it represents the Lord's love as experienced by those in hell. The west wind represents stopping or turning aside the flow of the Lord's love – in Israel the "wind of the sea" would come from the west, opposing the east wind.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 418, 419; Apocalypse Revealed 343 [2-4]; Arcana Coelestia 7679, 7702)