3594. [Exod. 8:] verse 21.** To "send on Pharaoh, on his servants, on his people, and into his houses," means the same as what was said above about the frogs, which you may see [at WE 3560-61]. For it is evil spirits that arouse those fantasies, and they desire nothing more than to tear a person apart miserably, by operating through dreadful fantasies, * This refers to the "missing numbers," 1 to 148 1/3, which were originally written at the end of the tomes of the Word of the Old Testament Explained. According to the index, paragraph 77 treats of the malice of evil spirits, paragraphs 143-44 of many spirits together and how they are kept in a bond. A. Acton refers to paragraph 77. However, the words "evil spirits" are anerroneous reading for "many spirits" (the Latin being "multorum," not "malorum"). That reference is more likely 143-44, is seen in 97, which mentions a "leader." ** In the Schmidius Bible, this is verse 17.