The toad is adapted to life in various conditions (water to dry land); it is a predator, reacting to moving prey, which contributes to the spiritual and figurative meaning of this word.

"Toad" is a characteristic of the vicious obsequiousness, the accommodation of the religious, political, and economic rulers of the sinful systems of the world and the peoples subject to them to a sinful way of life, to its various circumstances for their practical, purely pragmatic benefit, to maintain their position.

"Toads" are the false doctrines, wickednesses, woes that have afflicted nations and led them to immoral, sinful-adaptive manifestations of wickedness, falsehood, lawlessness.