AE 556a - teeth, lions, locusts

AE 556a
And their teeth were those of lions, (Rev. 9:8)
signifies that sensual things, which are the ultimates of the intellectual life,
seem to them to have power over all things;
from the signification "teeth," as being the sensual things which are the ultimates of the natural life in respect to the understanding;
and from the signification of "lions," as being the truths of the church in respect to power, but here falsities destroying truths, thus also these in respect to power.
Here falsities are meant, because "locusts" signify the corporeal-sensual who are in the falsities of evil. These seem to themselves to have understanding, and thereby power over all things, because that persuasiveness which has been treated of above has its seat in the sensual, which is the ultimate of the natural life; for this sensual, or the sensual man, is in self-confidence, and in the belief that he is wiser than all others, for he is unable to weigh and explore himself because he does not think interiorly,,,