'Pouring out the vials upon the earth, which contained the plagues,' in Revelation 16:1, signifies influx of the reformed into the church, or into people who study and receive the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 16; Apocalypse Revealed 676)

(Genesis 42:29.) The things which befall are the things which were of providence, or which were provided, because everything which befalls, or happens, in other words what is called fortuitous, and is ascribed to chance, or to fortune, is of providence. (Arcana Coelestia 5508)