7646. And it shall devour the residue of that which is escaped that is left to you from the hail. That this signifies the consuming of all things that have anything from truth, is evident from the signification of “to devour,” as being to be consumed; and from the signification of “the residue of that which is escaped that is left from the hail,” as being the truth not consumed by the former falsity which is signified by the “hail.” (That “hail” denotes falsity, see n. 7553, 7574.) The falsities which the “hail” signifies are falsities in the exterior natural; but the falsities which the “locust” signifies are falsities in its extremes, and these falsities are what consume the most general truths and goods; for what is exterior is also more general, and what is external is most general. When the generals have been destroyed, the particulars are dispersed; for it is generals that contain, and particulars that are contained.