10
ειςερχομαι-VBI-AAI3S δε-X *μωυσης-N1M-NSM και-C *ααρων-N---NSM εναντιον-P *φαραω-N---GSM και-C ο-
A--GPM θεραπων-N3--GPM αυτος-
D--GSM και-C ποιεω-VAI-AAI3P ουτως-D καθαπερ-D εντελλομαι-VAI-AMI3S αυτος-
D--DPM κυριος-N2--NSM και-C ριπτω-VAI-AAI3S *ααρων-N---NSM ο-
A--ASF ραβδος-N2--ASF εναντιον-P *φαραω-N---GSM και-C εναντιον-P ο-
A--GPM θεραπων-N3--GPM αυτος-
D--GSM και-C γιγνομαι-VBI-AMI3S δρακων-N3--NSM
7326. 'And they will be blood' means that they will falsify truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'blood' as the falsification of truth, dealt with above in 7317. In the genuine sense 'blood' means the holiness of love, as a consequence of which it means charity and faith, since they are holy attributes of love, and as a consequence of which again it means holy truth coming forth from the Lord, tool, 4735, 6978. In the contrary sense however 'blood' means violence done to charity and also violence done to faith, thus to holy truth coming forth from the Lord. And since violence is done to it when it is falsified the falsification of truth is meant by 'blood'; or when there is a greater degree of violence, the profanation of truth is meant by 'blood'. Such profanation was meant by 'the eating of blood', which was why that practice was so strictly forbidden, 1003.
3058. The reason 'drawing water' means instruction and also consequent enlightenment, as in later verses of this chapter, is that 'water in the internal sense means the truths of faith, 2702. Thus 'drawing water' is nothing else than receiving instruction in the truths of faith and so being enlightened, as is also the meaning elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah,
With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, and [you will say] or that day, Confess Jehovah. Isaiah 12:3-4.
'Drawing water' stands for receiving instruction, having intelligence, and being wise. In the same prophet,
To the thirsty bring water, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. Isaiah 21:14.
'Bringing water to the thirsty' stands for giving instruction. In the same prophet,
The wretched and the needy are seeking water, and there is none; their tongue is parched with thirst. Isaiah 41:17.
'Those seeking water' stands for those desiring instruction in truths, 'and there is none' stands for the fact that nobody had any. In addition 'drawers of water' in the Jewish Church represented those who constantly seek to know truths but to no other end than just knowing them, and who consequently pay no attention to their purpose. Such persons were rated among the lowest of all. The Gibeonites mentioned in Joshua 9:21, 23, 27, represented them.
