690. [verse 8] 'And the fourth angel poured out his phial into the sun' signifies an influx into their love. By 'to pour out the phial' is signified, here as before, an influx of goods and truths. Here it is into their love, for by 'the sun' is signified the Lord's Divine Love, and in the opposite sense the love of self (n. 53, 382, 414), here the love of self, because it follows on that men were struck down by fire and scorched with the great heat, by which the lusts of that love are signified.