7597. 'The voices will cease, and there will be no more hail' means the end of that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the voices', which are claps of thunder, as God's truths subjecting the evil to vastation, dealt with in 7573; from the meaning of 'hail' as falsities destroying truths, dealt with in 7553, 7574; and from the meaning of 'ceasing' and 'being no more' as the end of them, thus the end of that state. For each plague means some particular state in the vastation undergone by those who molest the upright in the next life.
