AC 7264-7265 - Exodus 7 Is About Different Vastations

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The subject treated of in the internal sense in what follows
is the vastation,
and at last the damnation,
of those who are in falsities and evils.
The process of their devastation is described
by the eleven plagues
brought on the Egyptians and their land.

In this chapter
the subject treated of in the internal sense
is the first three degrees of vastation.
The first, which is
that mere fallacies began to reign with them,
from which came falsities,
is described by the serpent
into which the rod of Aaron was turned.
The second, which is
that truths themselves became falsities with them,
and that falsities became truths,
is described by the blood
into which the waters were turned.
The third degree, which is
that from falsities they reasoned against
the truths and goods of the church,
is described by the frogs out of the river.