8563. 'And the people wrangled with Moses' means bitter complaining against God's truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'wrangling' as bitter complaining, for one who wrangles in temptation complains bitterly; and from the representation of 'Moses' as God's truth, dealt with in 6723, 6752, 6771, 6827, 7010, 7014, 7089, 7382.

1762. There are spirits who do not use speech but who have expressed their feelings by means of changes imposed on my own face. They presented their ideas so vividly that their thought was consequently given visible form so to speak. This was achieved by means of variations around the region of the lips, passing from there to the face, and then, when communicating their interior feelings, around the eyes - around the left eye when communicating truths and affections for truth, around the right when communicating goods and affections for good.