491. The same things are signified by “sons” and “daughters” in this chapter (verses 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 26, 30), but such as is the church, such are the “sons and daughters” that is, such are the goods and truths; the truths and goods here spoken of are such as were distinctly perceived, because they are predicated of the Most Ancient Church, the principal and parent of all the other and succeeding churches.

7583. 'And the hail struck every plant of the field' means that those falsities destroyed all of the Church's truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'plant of the field' as the Church's truth, dealt with above in 7571; from the meaning of 'striking' as destroying; and from the meaning of 'hail' as falsity, dealt with in 7553.