412. [verse 12] 'And the fourth angel sounded' signifies an examination and making manifest [to show] the state of the Church with those for whom religion is faith alone, that they are in evils of untruth and untruths of evil. That these things are signified is established from the things now following understood in the spiritual sense. Here as above (n. 398, 402, 407) 'to sound' signifies to examine and make manifest.