'And it happened in those days, when Moses had grown up means while those states lasted, and an increase in factual knowledge holding truths within it. 'That he went out to his brothers' means a joining to the Church's truths. 'And saw their burdens' means a discernment that they were being molested by falsities. 'And he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man' means alienated factual knowledge trying to destroy the Church's truth. 'One of his brothers' means the truths to which he was to be joined. 'And he looked this way and that, and saw that there was no man' means care taken to see whether it was safe. 'And he struck the Egyptian' means that he destroyed alienated factual knowledge. 'And hid him in the sand' means that he banished it to where falsities were. 'And he went out the second day' means a joining once again to the Church. 'And behold, two Hebrew men were quarrelling' means a discernment that within the Church people were in conflict with one another. 'And he said to the one in the wrong, Why are you striking your companion?' means a rebuke, deploring that one person should wish to destroy another's faith. 'And he said, Who set you up as a man-prince and a judge over us?' means a perception that he was not yet so advanced into the truths of the Church that he could settle disagreements within the Church. 'Do you intend to kill me . . . means, Do you wish to destroy my faith...'As you killed the Egyptian?' means, As you destroyed falsity? 'And Moses was afraid, and said, Surely the matter is known!' means that he was among alienated factual knowledge and not yet so strong in truths as to be safe from harm.

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