7311. 'Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying' means coming from the Deity of the Church to those who were molesting. This is clear from the meaning of 'the Hebrews' as things that constitute the Church, dealt with in 5136, 6675, 6684, 6738, the Deity of the Church being 'Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews' ('Jehovah God' is the Lord, 'Jehovah' in respect of Divine Goodness, and 'God' in respect of Divine Truth); and from the meaning of 'has sent me to you' as to those who are molesting. The fact that 'Pharaoh' to whom Jehovah had sent him represents those who engage in molestation has been shown often.

6675. 'He said, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'acting as a midwife' as the reception of goodness and truth flowing from the internal into the natural, for inasmuch as the natural receives influx it is 'a midwife', see 4588, 6673; from the meaning of 'the Hebrew women as things that belong to the Church, dealt with in 5136, 5236; from the meaning of 'seeing' as a discernment, dealt with in 2150, 3764, 4567, 4723, 5400; and from the meaning of 'the birthstools' as things in the natural that receive the forms of good and the truths flowing from the internal, thus true factual knowledge, since that knowledge is what receives them. From this it is evident that 'when you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge, which resides in the natural.