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)

93. Those who are spiritually adulterous are distinguished from those who are naturally adulterous. The latter, if they have taken pleasure in adulteries and no pleasure in marriages are shut out of heaven and are sent to hells. But the spiritually adulterous, although they feel there is nothing in adulteries which is not allowed, are all the same examined, and some are reformed; others are given places in accordance with their lives.