92. 3500. Here it should be observed that much speaking had intervened (as is usual when God the Messiah is speaking with anyone, although this speech takes place through angels, as it does with me), and so, perhaps, lasted over a period of many days. This is also evident from verse 13 of Chap. 6, as well as from the subsequent passages, in that the events are briefly reviewed here that had previously been told in detail. But how long a time had elapsed from the first revelation on the Mount of God, Horeb, up until they performed the signs, is not apparent from the Word Itself. In verse 7, Chap. 7, we read that "Moses was then a son of eighty years." [See also WE 3501-03, concluding the explanation of these verses.] [See WE 3546-56, explaining Exod. 8:1-15.] 3557. And so these frogs are what went forth from the river spoken of above [Exod. 7:15-25], and were gathered together into the river that is damned, in the region of the Egyptians [cf. WE 3539], that is, Armageddon [Rev. 16:16]. Thus the subject here is unclean spirits of the lowest sort, that is, the kind who control the lowest or outermost parts of the human being, and who arouse those passions pertaining to the body and blood that are called pleasures of the senses and merely bodily enjoyments - strictly, the various bodily luxuries due to taste. It is these unclean spirits that control the outermost or merely bodily regions of the human being, and are therefore called "frogs," which are larger insects of diverse shapes and sizes. They likewise