2952. 'In the ears of the people of the land' means even to being obedient as regards the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the ear' as obedience, dealt with in 2542, 2942, and from the meaning of 'the people of the land' as those who belong to the spiritual Church, and also the truths of that Church, dealt with in 1259, 1260, 2928.

1260. Since 'nations' in the Most Ancient Church and in the Ancient Church meant goods or good persons, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean evils or evil persons Similarly with 'peoples'; since these meant truths, therefore also in the contrary sense they mean falsities. For in a corrupted Church good is turned into evil, and truth into falsity, as a consequence of which the meaning of nations and peoples in that contrary sense occurs many times in the Word, as in Isaiah 13:4; 14:6; 18:2, 7; 30:28; 34:1-2; Ezekiel 20:13; and in many other places.