'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because there is no truth. 'Wilderness,' as in Jeremiah 23:10, signifies the Word when it is adulterated.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1927)

'The teeth of beasts' signify our sensory level as it relates to our lusts of evil, and 'the poison of serpents of the dust' signifies falsities that come from this, which maliciously or cunningly pervert truths by the fallacies of a person's sensory evidence.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 650; Deuteronomy 32:24)