Arcana Coelestia #8017
8017. 'And so it was on this same day' means a state of the Lord's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'day' as a period of time and a state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 7680. The reason why a state of the Lord's presence is meant is that it was Passover day, and 'the Passover' means the Lord's presence and the deliverance of those belonging to the spiritual Church from spiritual captivity and from damnation, 7867. Deliverance then is meant by what this verse goes on to say, namely that on that day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. The fact that this was on the day after the Passover is clear in Moses,
They set out from Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, in the sight 1 of all the Egyptians, at the time that the Egyptians were burying the firstborn who had been killed. Numbers 33:3-4.
The Lord's presence delivers from damnation those who are governed by good, and brings to damnation those who are ruled by evil, see 7926, 7989.
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1. literally, the eyes
Numbers 33:3-4
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They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
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while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.
