317. When He opened the fourth seal. (6:7) This symbolizes an examination by the Lord of those people on whom the Last Judgment would fall, as to their states of life, as in nos. 295, 302 above, with the difference described in what follows.

'To hide under an oak,' as in Genesis 35:4, signifies eternal rejection. 'Oak' signifies the sensory good and truth of the church, and consequently, the lowest part of the natural, which is either the truths and goods, or the falsities and evils of the natural level.

(Riferimenti: True Christian Religion 200)