Verse 7. For the man of the spiritual church is at all times free, and by the abuse of freedom opposes Divine Good from which is Divine Truth, although he has been liberated from the dominion of the merely natural man and the fallacies thereof; and therefore he suffers himself to be led astray by falsities and evils,

'Pharaoh,' in Genesis 40, represents the new natural self. 'Pharaoh' and 'the Egyptians' in the Word, signify the sensory and scientific principles. 'Let Pharaoh live,' as in Genesis 42:16, is a phrase that is employed to say something emphatically, thus to state a certainty. 'Pharaoh and his army' signify people who are in falsities from evil. 'Pharaoh' signifies false ideas infesting the truth of the church. It also signifies scientific ideas, or the natural principle in general.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1487, Arcana Coelestia 5192; Exodus 16)