6903. 'Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, has come to meet us' means the Lord's Divine in the Church, and what was commanded by Him. This is clear from the meaning of 'the Hebrews' as the Church, dealt with in 5136, 6675, 6684 (the reason why' Jehovah God' is the Lord's Divine is that in the Word none other than the Lord is meant by 'Jehovah', 1776, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5041, 5667, 6303); and from the meaning here of 'coming to meet' as what was commanded, since 'coming to meet' is used here to mean that He spoke to them and gave them orders. The fact that this is what is implied by 'has come to meet' is clear from the consideration that it no longer states the actual words spoken by Him but goes on immediately to express what had been commanded by Him.

6675. 'He said, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'acting as a midwife' as the reception of goodness and truth flowing from the internal into the natural, for inasmuch as the natural receives influx it is 'a midwife', see 4588, 6673; from the meaning of 'the Hebrew women as things that belong to the Church, dealt with in 5136, 5236; from the meaning of 'seeing' as a discernment, dealt with in 2150, 3764, 4567, 4723, 5400; and from the meaning of 'the birthstools' as things in the natural that receive the forms of good and the truths flowing from the internal, thus true factual knowledge, since that knowledge is what receives them. From this it is evident that 'when you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into the Church's factual knowledge, which resides in the natural.