2049. “不属于你种的一切外人” 表那些教会外的人. 这从 “外人” 的含义清楚可知, “外人” 是指那些并非生在教会内, 因而并非由信之善与真所主导的人, 因为他们不知道信之善与真. “外人” 也表示那些具有外在敬拜的人, 如前所述 (参看1097节), 尽管那里论述的主题是教会内的人. 然而, 此处的主题就广泛意义而言, 是主的教会, 故 “外人” 表那些并非生在教会内的人, 如外邦人. 教会外的外邦人可能拥有真理, 但没有信之真理. 他们的真理类似十诫, 如当孝敬父母, 不可杀人, 不可偷盗, 不可奸淫, 不可贪恋他人财物, 以及要敬拜神. 然而, 信之真理是关乎永生, 主的国度和主自己的一切教导. 外邦人不可能知道这类教导, 因为他们没有圣言.

这些人就是 “不属你种的外人” 所表示的人, 然而他们也要受割礼, 即被洁净. 由此明显可知, 他们和教会中人一样, 也能被洁净, 这种洁净由他们受割礼来代表. 当他们抛弃污秽的爱, 彼此生活在仁爱中时, 他们就被洁净. 因为那时, 真理会在他们的生活中发挥一定作用, 因为所有真理都属于仁爱, 但这类真理属于上述两种类型中的第一种. 当这些真理在他们的生活中发挥一定作用时, 他们很容易吸收信之真理, 即便活在肉身时没能吸收, 在来世也能吸收, 因为信之真理是仁爱的内在真理. 事实上, 那时他们只渴望被引入仁爱的内在真理. 构成主国度的, 就是仁爱的内在真理 (参看932, 1032, 1059, 1327, 1328, 1366节).

在来世, 仅有信之认知的知识毫无用处, 因为最坏的人, 甚至地狱里的人也能拥有这类知识, 有时知道的比其他人还要多. 照着这些认知所过的生活才是有用的, 因为一切认知都以生活为目的. 学习知识若不是为了生活, 那么这些知识毫无用处, 仅仅能使人们谈论它们, 由此被视为世间有学问的人, 被授予各种荣誉, 赚取名利. 由此明显可知, 与信之认知一致的生活无非是仁爱的生活. 事实上, 爱主爱邻构成律法和先知, 即信的全部教义, 连同信的一切认知. 谁都能从主的话 (马太福音 22:34-39 ; 马可福音 12:28-35) 清楚看出这一点.

然而, 教义, 或信之认知对于仁爱生命的形成是至关重要的. 没有它们, 仁爱的生命无法形成. 这是死后救人的生命. 没有仁爱生命的信之生命从来就不存在, 因为没有仁爱, 信的生命是不可能的. 爱与仁居于其中的人有主的生命在里面. 没人能凭其它生命与主结合. 由此也明显可知, 信之真理若不被植入在仁爱中, 绝无法被视为真理; 也就是说, 承认它们是不可能的, 除非表面上或口头上, 因为它们从内在或从内心被否认. 如前所述, 一切信之真理都以仁爱为目的, 若仁爱不存在于它们里面, 那么它们会从内在被拒绝. 外在之物被拿走 (如来世的情形) 后, 内在事物的性质就会显明; 也就是说, 它们与一切信之真理完全相反. 人在世时若没有接受仁爱的生命, 那么在来世接受它是根本不可能的, 因为他们厌恶并憎恨它. 死后, 诸如在世时与他们同在的生命会归于他们. 事实上, 他们厌恶并憎恨相爱. 这种人仅仅靠近具有相爱生活的社群就会颤抖, 战栗, 感到痛苦.

这种人虽然生在教会内, 但仍被称为 “身心未受割礼的外邦人”, 他们不会被允许进入圣所, 即进入主的国度. 以西结书所指的也是他们:

身心未受割礼的外邦人不可入圣所. (以西结书 44:7, 9)

同一先知书:

在这样荣耀威势上, 在伊甸园诸树中, 谁能与你相比呢? 然而你要与伊甸的诸树一同下到阴府, 在未受割礼的人中与被刀杀的人一同躺卧. (以西结书 31:18)

这论及法老, 法老表示总体上的记忆知识 (1164, 1165, 1186, 1462节). 他们要与之一同下到阴府的 “伊甸诸树” 也表记忆知识, 不过是指那些信之认知的知识. 由此明显可知, 就内义而言, “未受割礼的” 表示什么, 即, 是指处于污秽的爱欲和属于这些爱欲的生命之人.

9412. 'And ate and drank' means being told about the good and truth of worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being joined to and making good their own, dealt with in 2187, 2343, 3168, 3513 (end), 3596, 3832, 4745, 5643; and from the meaning of 'drinking' as being joined to and making truth their own, dealt with in 3089, 3168, 4017, 4018, 5709, 8562. The reason why being told about is also meant - that is to say, being told about good is meant by 'eating', and being told about truth by 'drinking' - is that spiritual food consists in every good of faith that is a source of wisdom, while spiritual drink consists in every truth of faith that is a source of intelligence, 56-58, 681, 1480, 3069, 3114, 3168, 3772, 4792, 5147, 5293, 5340, 5342, 5410, 5426, 5487, 5576, 5579, 5582, 5588, 5655, 5915, 8562, 9003. This explains why feasts, banquets, midday meals, and suppers were instituted among the ancients, to the end that such good and truth belonging to wisdom and intelligence might bind them into fellowship with one another, 3596, 3832, 5161, 7836, 7996, 7997.

[2] It also explains why banquets, midday meals, and suppers in the Word mean instances of being bound together in faith and love, as in Matthew,

Many will come from the east and the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 8:11.

In Luke,

Jesus said to the disciples, You will eat and drink at My table in My kingdom. Luke 22:30.

In the same gospel,

Blessed are the servants whom the Lord comes and finds watching. Truly, I say to you that He will gird Himself and make them sit down, and He Himself will come and minister to them. Luke 12:37.

In John,

The disciples asked Jesus, saying, Master, eat. But He said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know. John 4:31-32.

In the same gospel,

Jesus said, I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. John 6:51.

Heavenly bread is plainly meant here. Heavenly bread consists in all the good of love and faith which comes from the Lord, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915, 6118, 9323.

[3] The fact that being told about the good and truth of faith is meant by 'eating and drinking' is clear from the following places: In Luke,

Then you will begin to say, We ate in Your presence and we drank; and You taught in our streets. But He will say, I say to you, I do not know where you come from; depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity. Luke 13:26-27.

'Eating and drinking in the Lord's presence' stands for giving instruction from the Word regarding forms of the good and the truths of faith. 'Teaching in the streets' stands for preaching truths from the Lord's Word, for in former times preaching took place in the streets, because truths composing the teachings of the Church are meant by 'the streets', 2336.

[4] In Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Pay thorough attention to Me and eat what is good, that your soul may delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear and come to Me; hear, that your soul may live. Lo, I have given Him as a witness to the peoples, a Prince and Lawgiver to the peoples. ¹ Isaiah 55:1-5.

Here it is evident that 'drinking' and 'eating' mean being told things by the Lord, and that 'the waters', 'wine', 'milk', 'bread', and 'fatness' are forms of the truth and the good of faith which come from Him, for it says, 'Incline your ear, come to Me; hear, that your soul may live. Lo, I have given Him as a witness to the peoples, a Prince and a Lawgiver to the peoples'.

[5] In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am breaking the rod of bread in Jerusalem, so that they may eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and with dismay, and may be in want of bread and water, and waste away on account of their iniquity. Ezekiel 4:16-17.

'Eating bread' and 'drinking water' stand for receiving instruction in forms of the good and the truths of faith, 9323. Something similar occurs in Amos,

Behold, the days are going to come, in which I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8:11.

'A famine of bread' and 'a thirst for water' are a scarcity and lack of the cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth, see 3364, 4958, 5277, 5279, 5281, 5300, 5360, 5376, 5415, 5568, 5579, 5893, 6110, 8576. All this now makes clear what the meaning is of the words which say that the disciples' eyes were opened and they recognized the Lord when the Lord broke the bread and gave it to them, Luke 24:29-31. For in the spiritual world 'breaking the bread and giving it to them' means instructing them in the good and truth of faith, by means of which the Lord is seen. It also makes clear what the meaning is of 'the bread and wine' and 'eating and drinking' in the Holy Supper, and what the meaning is of the Lord's words to the disciples, after He had instituted that Supper, that He would not drink of that fruit of the vine until the day when He would drink it new with them in the Father's kingdom, Matthew 26:26-29. The reason why 'eating and drinking' means being told about the good and truth of worship is that after they had offered sacrifices they also ate and drank from them, and sacrifices represented all worship in general, 9391.

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