375. 'A voice crying out' and 'the voice of a cry' are expressions commonly used in the Word and are applied to any situation involving any kind of uproar, commotion, or disturbance, even when the occasion is a happy one, as in Exodus 32:17-18; Zephaniah 1:9-10; Isaiah 65:19; Jeremiah 48:3. In this instance the voice is one of accusation.

7047. 'And said, Surely a bridegroom of blood are you to me!' means that it was full of every kind of violence and hostility towards truth and goodness. This is clear from the meaning here of 'a bridegroom' as a representative of the Church or the external aspect of it since the representative Church itself is 'the bride' (in these three verses 'Moses' represents that nation, and a representative of the Church among them, see above in 7041. While 'Zipporah' represents the representative Church, 7044; and since 'Zipporah' represents the representative Church and 'Moses' the external aspect of it, Zipporah does not call him her man or husband but 'a bridegroom', for a bride can represent something dissimilar from that which the bridegroom represents, unlike man or husband and wife since the bond of marriage makes them one); and from the meaning of 'blood' as violence done to charity, dealt with in 374, 1005, and also as truth falsified and rendered profane, 4735, 6978, thus hostility towards truth and goodness.