88. permission of God the Messiah.* [See also WE 3421-28, concluding the explanation of Exod. 4:23.] # # 3439.** But the things said in [Exod. 4] verses 22 to 26 are in themselves obscure, unless, by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah, they are revealed. For they are secrets which can absolutely not be laid open except by God the Messiah Alone. For this reason, let the same words be taken up again. [See also WE 3440-44, again explaining Exod. 4:22-24.] 3445. Here the subject is now the son of Moses, whom [Jehovah] could not slay because of blood, exactly as we read about the descendants of Jacob, namely, that the destroyer or smiter could not slay the children of Jacob upon seeing the blood [Exod. 12:13,23]; therefore those descendants were saved by it on that occasion. What the universal meanings are when the subject is the son of Moses, who was to be slain, cannot be told at this time by reason of the fact that * This short line appears in the original indented, below a full line which left little space, and therefore may not constitute an "indented paragraph." We conclude it as one, because its subject has the nature of an experience. ** This paragraph is inserted because it is referred to in paragraph 87.