10466. 'And made the children of Israel drink it' means joined to that nation and made their own. This is clear from the meaning of 'drinking' as joining truth, and in the contrary sense falsity, to themselves and making it their own, dealt with in 3089, 3168, 8562, at this point the falsity of evil. 'The children of Israel' pure and simple should be understood here, since that which was properly theirs is the subject here.

From all this it now becomes clear what the interiors of that nation were like, for these are what this chapter is describing.

3169. 'He and the men who were with him' means the things which were in the natural man. This is clear from the representation of 'the servant', to whom 'he' refers here, as the natural man, dealt with in 3019, 3020, and from the meaning of 'the men who were with him' as all things that existed in the natural man, dealt with in 3148.