8755. 'And they travelled from Rephidim' means a continuation of life from the first state. This is clear from the meaning of 'travelling' as a Edom, continuation of life, dealt with in 4375, 4554, 4585, 5996, 8181, 8345, 8397, 8557; and from the meaning of 'Rephidim' as the essential nature of the state of a temptation that has to do with truth dealt with in 8561, thus the essential nature of the first state referred to immediately above in 8754. For in that first state a member of the spiritual Church undergoes temptations. Therefore from that first state there is a continuation of life, and this is meant by 'travelling from Rephidim'.