508. Verses 8, 9. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had lives, died; and the third part of the ships perished.- "And the second angel sounded," signifies influx out of heaven, and the second change which came upon the evil: "and as it were a great mountain burning with fire," signifies the love of self, and thence of [one's] own intelligence; "was cast into the sea," signifies into the natural man; "and the third part of the sea became blood," signifies that everything became falsity of evil. "And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had lives, died," signifies that every living scientific in the natural man perished: "and the third part of the ships perished," signifies also that all the cognitions of truth and good from the Word, and the doctrines therefrom, perished.