Arcana Coelestia # 10115
10115. 'You shall burn what is left with fire' means dispensing with them. This is clear from the meaning of 'anything of the flesh and bread that is left' as that which has not been made their own, as above in 10114; and from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as dispensing with, at this point by means of the loves that belong to the human self, thus by means of the evils which go with those loves. For love in both senses is meant by 'fire'; here the love belonging to the self is meant, which is self-love.
Self-love is meant by 'fire', see 1297, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7575.
The human self is nothing other than evil, 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1023, 1044, 3812(end), 5660.
Love belonging to the self is meant here because 'what is left until the morning' means what has not been joined to good, 10114, and what cannot be joined comes not from the Divine but from the self. The fact that this was unclean, and so was evil, is clear in Moses,
Whoever eats what is left till morning shall bear his iniquity; and that soul shall be cut off from his people. Leviticus 19:7-8.
In the same author,
If any of the flesh of the eucharistic sacrifice is eaten at all on the third day, the one offering it will not be accepted, nor will it be imputed to him. It will be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it will bear his iniquity. Leviticus 7:16-18.
The same thing is likewise clear from the statement that what was left of the manna produced worms and became putrid, Exodus 16:20.
Arcana Coelestia # 7575
7575. 'And fire ran down to the earth' means evil desires. This is clear from the meaning of 'fire' as evil desires, dealt with in 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324; and from the meaning of 'running down to the earth' 1 as taking possession of the natural mind right down to the lowest levels of it, 'the land of Egypt' being the natural mind, see 5276, 5178, 5280, 5188, 5301. Since 'hail' means falsities and 'fire' the evils from which they spring, when 'hail' is mentioned so too is 'fire' in Isaiah 30:30-31; Psalms 18:12-15; 78:47-49; Revelation 8:7, as well as in the verse immediately after this,
And there was hail, and fire at the same time running down in the midst of the hail, extremely heavy.
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1. i.e. in the land of Egypt
