Arcana Coelestia 8258. In the internal sense of this chapter the Lord is celebrated, in that after He had glorified His Human, He cast down into the hells the evil who were infesting the good in the other life; and raised into heaven the good who had been infested. These are the things which are contained in this prophetic song in the internal sense.

Arcana Coelestia 8259. Afterward the second temptation of those who were of the spiritual church is treated of in the internal sense, which is described by the murmuring of the people at Marah, where the waters were bitter; and after this, consolation is treated of, which is signified by the encampment at Elim, where were twelve springs and seventy palm trees.

8259. After that song the internal sense deals with the second temptation undergone by those belonging to the spiritual Church, described by the grumbling of the people at Marah, where the waters were bitter; and finally it refers to the comfort they received, meant by the encampment at Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees.