Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 4
Let Us Deal Wisely
315) “Let us deal wisely with him, lest he will multiply.” “Let us” is an invitation to execute judgment. “Let us” means consent and invitation, as it is written, “Let us build us a city,” and as it is written, “Ascribe to the Lord, O sons of gods.”
316) “Let us deal wisely with it” means let us make a legal agreement with it, lest they will multiply. And the spirit of holiness says, “The more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.” The serving angels were to them as thorns and as pricks, as it is written, “And they were in dread [sounds like a thorn in Hebrew] of the children of Israel.” This refers to the children of Israel above, which are the angels, who were stung by the serving angels, like the thorns that sting people.
