8177. Verses 15-18 And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the children of Israel, and let them travel on. And you, lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it; and let the children of Israel come into the middle of the sea on dry ground. And I, behold, I am hardening the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will come after them, and I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army, in his chariots, and in his horsemen. And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I am glorified in Pharaoh, in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

'And Jehovah said to Moses' means an admonition. 'Why do you cry to Me?' means that there is no need of intercession. 'Speak to the children of Israel' means influx and perception. 'And let them travel on' means a further stage, continuing until their preparation has been accomplished. 'And you, lift up your rod' means the power of Divine Truth. 'Stretch out your hand over the sea' means the exercising of power where the hell of falsity arising from evil is situated. 'Divide it' means dispersing falsity from there. 'And let the children of Israel come into the middle of the sea on dry ground' means in order that those belonging to the spiritual Church may pass through in safety and without falsity flowing in. 'And I, behold, I am hardening the hearts of the Egyptians' means obstinate resistance by falsity arising from evil. 'And they will come after them' means the attempt to do violence by flowing in with falsity arising from evil. 'And I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen' means that they are about to see the accomplishment of the dispersing of falsity and reasonings by the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Human. 'And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah' means in order that it may be known that the Lord alone is God, and apart from Him there is no other. 'When I am glorified in Pharaoh, in his chariots, and in his horsemen' means, as above, [known] from this, that they are about to see the accomplishment of the dispersing of falsity, of teachings upholding it, and of reasonings, by the Lord alone.