6654. 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are many and numerous, more than ourselves' means that the Church's truths are prevailing over alienated factual knowledge. This is clear from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as the Church's truths and forms of good, dealt with above in 6647; from the meaning of 'many and numerous' as prevailing, for 'multiplying', or becoming many, and 'numerous' are used in reference to truth, see also above, in 6648; and from the representation of the king of Egypt and his people, whom one should understand here by 'more than ourselves', as alienated factual knowledge, as above in 6652. From all this it is evident that 'Behold, the people of [the children of] Israel are many and numerous, more than ourselves' means that truths are prevailing over alienated factual knowledge.