4745. “他们坐下吃饭” 表将出于虚假的邪恶归为己有. 这从 “吃” 和 “饭” 的含义清楚可知: “吃” 是指变成自己的, 或归为己有 (3168, 3513, 3596, 3832节); “饭” 是指爱之良善 (276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735节), 以及总体上一切食物 (参看2165节). 然而, 此处 “饭” 却表示反面, 即邪恶, 因为众所周知, 那些领受圣餐时不配吃饼的人将邪恶, 而非良善变成自己的, 或归为己有. 由此明显可知, 就反面意义而言, “吃饭” 表示将邪恶归为己有, 或变成自己的. 当古人作出一个重要决定, 并得到其他人赞同时, 他们习惯在一起吃饭, 以此表示他们赞同这个决定, 因而将它变成自己的; 如以西结书:

看哪! 以色列的首领各逞其膀臂, 在你中间流人之血. 在你中间有谗谤人, 流人血的; 有在山上吃过祭偶像之物的. (以西结书 22:6, 9)

此外, 要知道, 邪恶总体上有两个源头, 一个是生活, 一个是教义. 源于虚假教义的邪恶被称为出于虚假的邪恶; 此处所指的, 就是这种邪恶.

Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to meet Esau, and the angel tells him that his name will be changed. After he is reconciled with Esau, they go their separate ways. Jacob moves to Shechem and then on to Bethel, where he builds an altar to the Lord. The Lord appears to him there, renews the covenant He first made with Abraham and again tells him that his name will be Israel (Genesis 35). The story goes on to tell of Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death in bearing him, and then of Jacob's return to Isaac and Isaac's death and burial. But at that point the main thread of the story leaves Israel and turns to Joseph, and Israel is hardly mentioned until after Joseph has risen to power in Egypt, has revealed himself to his brothers and tells them to bring all of their father's household down to Egypt. There, before Israel dies, he blesses Joseph's sons, plus all his own sons. After his death he is returned to the land of Canaan for burial in Abraham's tomb. In the story of Jacob and Esau, Jacob represents truth, and Esau good. Jacob's stay in Padan-Aram, and the wealth he acquired there, represent learning the truths of scripture, just as we learn when we read the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The change of name from Jacob to Israel represents the realization that what we learn should not simply be knowledge, but should be the rules of our life, to be followed by action. This action is the good that Esau has represented in the story up to that time, but after the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau, Jacob as Israel now represents the truth and the good, together. It is interesting that even after his name change Jacob is rarely called Israel. Sometimes he is called one and sometimes the other, and sometimes he is called both Jacob and Israel in the same verse (Genesis 46:2, 5, & 8 also Psalm 14:7). This is because Jacob represents the external person and Israel the internal person, and even after the internal person comes into being, we spend much of our lives living on the external level.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4274, 4292, 4570, 5595, 6225, 6256, Genesis 2:5, 46:8)