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Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
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Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
'To hurt,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:6, signifies violation and profanation.
In Revelation 9:4, this signifies perverting the truths and goods of the church by crafty rationalizations from sensory scientific facts and fallacies.
'To be hurt of the second death,' as mentioned in Revelation 2:11, signifies sinking under evils and falsities from hell.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 9 [4]; Apocalypse Revealed 316)
8208. 'And the Egyptians pursued' means the attempt by falsity arising from evil to do violence. This is clear from the meaning of 'pursuing', when done by the Egyptians, as the attempt to bring under their control, dealt with in 8136, 8152, 8154, thus to do violence; and from the representation of 'the Egyptians' as those steeped in falsities arising from evil, dealt with in 8132, 8135, 8146, 8148, and so also as falsities arising from evil.