'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.

(Referenser: Apocalypse Revealed 424, 430)

8601. And Joshua did as Moses had said to him. That this signifies the effect, as the fighting truth had been instructed by Divine truth, is evident from the signification of “doing,” as being the effect; from the representation of Joshua, as being fighting truth (see just (8595) above, n. 8595); and from the signification of “as Moses had said to him,” as being as it had been instructed by Divine truth. For by Moses is represented Divine truth, and by “as he said” is signified to be instructed by it.