8017. 'And so it was on this same day' means a state of the Lord's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'day' as a period of time and a state, dealt with in 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, 2788, 3462, 3785, 4850, 7680. The reason why a state of the Lord's presence is meant is that it was Passover day, and 'the Passover' means the Lord's presence and the deliverance of those belonging to the spiritual Church from spiritual captivity and from damnation, 7867. Deliverance then is meant by what this verse goes on to say, namely that on that day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. The fact that this was on the day after the Passover is clear in Moses,
They set out from Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, in the sighta of all the Egyptians, at the time that the Egyptians were burying the firstborn who had been killed. Num 33:3, 4.
The Lord's presence delivers from damnation those who are governed by good, and brings to damnation those who are ruled by evil, see 7926, 7989.
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