"And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river," signifies crafty reasonings in abundance concerning justification by faith alone by those who think sensually and not spiritually; "that he might cause her to be carried away by the river," signifies that that church might be blinded and scattered by reasonings. "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth," signifies that those who are of a church which is not in truths afforded assistance, and did not accept the crafty reasonings of those who were [in] faith separated from [charity].