Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".

8410. “吃饼得饱” 表在这种情况下, 他们可以尽情享受低级趣味的良善. 这从 “吃”, “饼” 和 “得饱” 的含义清楚可知. “吃” 是指变成人自己的 (3168, (3513结尾, 3596, 4745节), 也指享受 (7849节). “饼” 是指天上生活的良善, 在反面意义上是指脱离天上生活的属世生活的良善, 因而是低级趣味的良善; 因为 “饼” 在灵义上表示滋养灵魂并维持其属灵生命的首要事物, 这首要事物就是爱之良善, 这一点从天堂的生活明显看出来, 天堂的生活唯独由这良善构成; 但在反面意义上, “饼” 表示滋养地狱里的人并维持其生命的首要事物, 这首要事物就是自我之爱和尘世之爱的邪恶, 这一点从地狱的生活明显看出来, 地狱的生活唯独由这邪恶构成; 对他们来说, 邪恶就是良善, 因为没有比这更让他们快乐, 甜蜜的了; 此处 “低级趣味的良善” 就表示这一点. “得饱” 是指尽情, 因为对善人来说, 意愿吃良善得饱; 对恶人来说, 意愿吃邪恶得饱.