7465. 'To remove the noxious flying insects from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people' means in order that there may be an end to that state involving the malevolent falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'noxious flying insects' as malevolent falsities, dealt with in 7441; from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as those who are steeped in falsities arising from evils and engage in molestation, dealt with previously; and from the meaning of 'his servants and his people' as every single one of them, dealt with in 7396, 7441. The removal of those malevolent falsities from every single one of those molesters brings that state to an end. It should be recognized that every miracle that was performed in Egypt means some particular state which those people enter who are steeped in falsities and are molesters in the next life. There are ten states, one after another, which they enter, before they are completely divested of all truth, thus before they are cast into hell. For those who have a knowledge of matters of belief yet lead an evil life are not after death conveyed immediately to hell but in successive stages towards it. First it is proved to them that they are governed by evil, then their knowledge of matters of belief is taken away from them, and finally they are left with the evil life they lead; and all this is effected by means of a number of states one after another. These states are the things described by the miracles performed in Egypt and therefore the bad things that happened to the Egyptians before they were drowned in the Sea Suph. Without revelation these arcana cannot be known; to angels they are some of the most familiar.