677. As regards the food of someone who is to be regenerated, the situation is this: Before anyone can be regenerated he must be supplied with all those things that can serve as means - the goods and delights which constitute affections as means for the will, and truths from the Lord's Word, together also with matters of a confirmatory nature from other sources, as means for the understanding. Until a person has been supplied with these he cannot be regenerated. These are what constitute his food. This explains why a person is not regenerated until he has entered adult years. Everybody however has some particular food so to speak proper to himself, which the Lord provides for him before regeneration takes place.