94. * are their homes, thus also in rivers that stink like swamps, because of the dead. 3574. [Exod. 8:] verse 14.* Here it came about that the Egyptians "gathered the frogs into heaps," and that "the land stank from them." But these words were written down because they also involve other things, that is, that those gatherings, symbolized here by "frogs," are not only unclean spirits, but especially whatever is aroused by them, namely, bodily enjoyments. When these grow stale, then the whole body stinks from them. For although they are deprived of power, and dead, they still remain, so that the Egyptian, that is, earthly person, * can breathe. A stench to the nostrils corresponds to their unclean nature, as has also * In the Schmidius Bible, this is verse 10.