To strike or smite, when used in the Bible, means to attack, harm or destroy, and is usually in reference to an attack on someone's knowledge and intellect. This is actually true both when evil people strike good people, trying to destroy their understanding of spiritual things, and when the Lord is pictured as striking people (with plagues in Egypt, for example), which most often represents the dulling of the intellect and destruction of knowledge in evil people to prevent them from doing spiritual harm to others.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 498; Arcana Coelestia 1487, 6758, 6765, 7330, 7871, 9007, 9034, 9081, 9126, 10510)

7331. 'Before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants' means to the discernment of all those who were molesting. This is clear from the meaning of 'the eyes' as discernment, dealt with in 4087, 4379; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those who molest by means of falsities, dealt with previously. All those are meant when it says 'before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants'.