7647. 'And will devour every tree growing up for you out of the field' means thus the consumption of all the religious knowledge that they get from the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'devouring' as consumption, as immediately above in 7646; from the meaning of 'tree' as perceptions, and also cognitions or knowledge of truth and good, dealt with in 2722 (end), 2972; and from the meaning of 'the field' as the Church, dealt with in 2971, 3317, 3766, 4440, 7502, 7571.