'Pharaoh,' in Genesis 40, represents the new natural self. 'Pharaoh' and 'the Egyptians' in the Word, signify the sensory and scientific principles. 'Let Pharaoh live,' as in Genesis 42:16, is a phrase that is employed to say something emphatically, thus to state a certainty. 'Pharaoh and his army' signify people who are in falsities from evil. 'Pharaoh' signifies false ideas infesting the truth of the church. It also signifies scientific ideas, or the natural principle in general.

(Посилання: Arcana Coelestia 1487, Arcana Coelestia 5192; Exodus 16)

7785. 'Against man and even against beast' means neither in respect of truth nor of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'man' as truth, dealt with in 7134; and from the meaning of 'beast' as an affection for good, and so good itself, dealt with just above in 7781.