Fire brand, a smoking
A smoking firebrand signifies the lusts of falsity, and thence great wrath and anger against the truths and goods of the church.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 559; Isaiah 7:4)
Marriage # 92
92. Other prostitutes who could steal men by tricks unknown in the world, driving them into their proprium by praises and by drowning their minds in themselves; and because the men were then without protection from the Lord, they were attracted to these women these women were cast into a place as it were burning with brimstone and fire, or so it appeared. They lived in the south-west region; and similar men were cast into a gloomy abyss close under the lake of the women. The women bewitch men, and the men women, by diabolical tricks, which are numerous. It is not permitted to enumerate them.
