738. Verse 9. "And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which seduceth the whole world; he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

"And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent," signifies that those who were in evils of life, and who had thus become sensual, and had perverted all things of the Word and thus of the church, were separated from heaven and cast into hell, "called the devil and Satan," signifies, because they were interiorly in evils and falsities from hell; "which seduceth the whole world," signifies, that pervert all things of the church; "he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him," signifies that those evils and the falsities therefrom were condemned to hell.