6754. Verses 11-14 And it happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and saw their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers. And he looked this way and that, and saw that there was no man; and he struck the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And he went out the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarrelling; and he said to the one in the wrong, Why are you striking your companion? And he said, Who set you up as a man-prince and a judge over us? Do you intend ¹ to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely the matter is known!

'And it happened in those days, when Moses had grown up means while those states lasted, and an increase in factual knowledge holding truths within it. 'That he went out to his brothers' means a joining to the Church's truths. 'And saw their burdens' means a discernment that they were being molested by falsities. 'And he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man' means alienated factual knowledge trying to destroy the Church's truth. 'One of his brothers' means the truths to which he was to be joined. 'And he looked this way and that, and saw that there was no man' means care taken to see whether it was safe. 'And he struck the Egyptian' means that he destroyed alienated factual knowledge. 'And hid him in the sand' means that he banished it to where falsities were. 'And he went out the second day' means a joining once again to the Church. 'And behold, two Hebrew men were quarrelling' means a discernment that within the Church people were in conflict with one another. 'And he said to the one in the wrong, Why are you striking your companion?' means a rebuke, deploring that one person should wish to destroy another's faith. 'And he said, Who set you up as a man-prince and a judge over us?' means a perception that he was not yet so advanced into the truths of the Church that he could settle disagreements within the Church. 'Do you intend to kill me . . . ' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith...'As you killed the Egyptian?' means, As you destroyed falsity? 'And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely the matter is known!' means that he was among alienated factual knowledge and not yet so strong in truths as to be safe from harm.

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27. Verse 9 And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

Once a person knows of the existence of the internal man and of the external man, and knows that, contrary to appearance, truths and goods flow in from the internal man, or from the Lord by way of the internal into the external, then the things residing in him as cognitions of truth and good are stored away in his memory and registered among the facts there. For anything that finds its way into the memory or the external man, whether natural, spiritual, or celestial, lodges there as known fact, and from that place it is brought out by the Lord. These cognitions are 'the waters gathered together to one place' and are called 'seas'. But the external man itself is called 'the dry land' and immediately afterwards 'earth', as in the verses that follow.