'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.

(Referencias: Apocalypse Explained 16; Apocalypse Revealed 676)

To go after or to follow, as in Genesis 24:8, signifies to be separated from the natural and conjoined to the rational principle.

(Referencias: Arcana Coelestia 3042)