8220. Verses 26-28 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters return onto the Egyptians, onto his chariots, and onto his horsemen. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, [and the sea returned,] as morning was breaking, to its normal strengtha; and the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it, and Jehovah overturnedb the Egyptians into the middle of the sea. And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army, coming after them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.
'And Jehovah said to Moses' means influx. 'Stretch out your hand over the sea' means the exercising of power by God's truth over hell. 'And let the waters return onto the Egyptians' means that the falsities [arising from evil] would flow back onto and surround those steeped in falsities arising from evil. 'Onto his chariots, and onto his horsemen' means the doctrinal teachings that uphold falsity, and the reasonings that belong to a perverted understanding. 'And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea' means, as above, the exercising of Divine power over hell. 'And the sea returned, as morning was breaking, to its normal strength' means that the falsities arising from evil flowed back onto them, at the presence of the Lord. 'And the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it' means that they plunged themselves into the falsities arising from evil. 'And Jehovah overturned the Egyptians into the middle of the sea' means that in so doing they cast themselves into the hell where the falsities arising from evil existed. 'And the waters returned' means that the falsities recoiled on them. 'And covered the chariots and the horsemen, and all Pharaoh's army' means that their own falsities hid them. 'Coming after them into the sea' means that they took possession of them. 'Not so much as one of them remained' means every single one.
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