6729. 'And the daughter of Pharaoh went down' means the kind of religion practised there. This is clear from the meaning of 'the daughter' as an affection for truth and good, and from this as the Church, dealt with in 2362, 3963, and in the contrary sense as an affection for falsity and evil, and from this as the kind of religion that springs from them, 3024. Here the kind of religion that springs from false factual knowledge is meant because the daughter is Pharaoh's; for 'Pharaoh' here represents false factual knowledge, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692. In the Word Churches are meant by 'daughters', as may be recognized from the very many places in which the Church is called the daughter of Zion, and the daughter of Jerusalem. The false religions of quite a number of nations are also meant by 'daughters', as is evident from the places where those religions are called daughters, for example, the daughter of Tyre, Ps 45:12; the daughter of Edom, Lam 4:22; the daughter of the Chaldeans and of Babel, Isa 47:1,5; Jer 50:41, 42; 51:33; Zech 2:7, Ps 137:8; the daughter of the Philistines, Ezek 16:27, 57; the daughter of Tarshish, Isa 23:10. 'The daughter of Egypt' is spoken of in Jeremiah,