6850. Verses 7-8 And Jehovah said, I have indeed seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry from before their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause them to come up out of that land to a land good and broad, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Amorite and the Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

'And Jehovah said, I have indeed seen the affliction of My people' means the mercy shown towards those who belonged to the spiritual Church after molestations by falsities. 'And have heard their cry from before their taskmasters' means the help of that mercy in opposition to those who wished to compel them to serve. 'For I know their sorrows' means foresight of how deeply they would be plunged into falsities. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. 'And to cause them to come up out of that land' means that they would be raised up. 'To a land good and broad' means to heaven where the good of charity and the truth of faith are. 'Flowing with milk and honey' means which are a source of pleasure and delight. 'To the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite' means the region occupied by evils that arise from falsities. 'And the Amorite and Perizzite' means occupied by evils and the falsities that arise from them. 'And the Hivite and the Jebusite' means occupied by what is idolatrous but has some kind of goodness and truth in it.