8183.
'Stretch out your hand over the sea' means the exercising of power where the hell of falsity arising from evil is situated. This is clear from the meaning of 'stretching out the hand' as an exercising
of power, dealt with in 7673; and from the meaning of 'the sea', in this case the Sea Suph, as the hell in which the falsities arising from evil of people who have belonged to the Church are present,
dealt with in 8099, 8137, 8148. More about this hell will in the Lord's Divine mercy be told at the ends of the final chapters of Exodus, where the hells as known from experience will be the subject.a
Notes
a
This proposal was not fulfilled, but presumably the material mentioned here concerning the hells appeared in the work published a few years later, in 1758, whose English title is Heaven and Hell.
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