AE 388d & 388f - wild beasts

AE 388d [21]
"The evil wild beast" means all ravenous beasts,
such as lions, bears, tigers, panthers, wild boars, wolves,
dragons, serpents, and many others,
which seize and rend asunder good animals,
such as lambs, sheep, bullocks, oxen, and the like.
That such wild beasts, and in general, "the evil wild beast,"
signify lusts springing from the love of self and the world,
from which are all the evils of life and the falsities of doctrine . . ..

AE 388f [31]
When, however, "the wild beast of the earth" is mentioned,
it means a wild beast that devours animals and men;
but when "the wild beast of the field" is mentioned,
it means a wild beast that eats up the crops;
therefore "the wild beast of the earth"
signifies such things as destroy the goods of the church,
and "the wild beast of the field"
such things as destroy the truths of the church . . .