7099. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. That this signifies that the God Himself of the church has commanded, is evident from the signification of “the Hebrews,” as being those who are of the church (see n. 6675, 6684, 6738); and from the signification of “meeting,” as being to command (n. 6903).

6684. Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women. That this signifies that the memory-knowledges of the church are not like the memory-knowledges opposed to them, is evident from the signification of “the Hebrew women,” as being things of the church (see n. 5136, 5236, 6673, 6675); and from the signification of “the Egyptian women,” as being such things as are opposed to the things of the church, which are memory-knowledges, as is plain from what goes before; also from the signification of “Egypt,” as being memory-knowledges (n. 6638), here memory-knowledges opposed to the true memory-knowledges of the church. (That “women” denote things of the church, see n. 252, 253.)