'Locusts' signify falsities in the extremes, which consume the truths and goods of the church in a person. 'The locusts' which John the Baptist ate signify truths of a most common or general nature.

(References: Apocalypse Revealed 424, 430)

1719. 'The women and the people' means both goods and truths. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'wives' and 'daughters' as goods, dealt with already in 489-491, 568, 915 - 'women' being used here instead of wives and daughters; and from the meaning of 'people' as truth, also dealt with already, in 1259, 1260.