3149. „Und man legte ihm vor zu essen“, 1 Mose 24:33, daß dies bedeutet die Neigung zum Guten im natürlichen Menschen wollte, daß es angeeignet werden möchte, erhellt aus der vorbildlichen Bedeutung Labans, von dem es vorgelegt wurde, sofern er ist die Neigung zum Guten im natürlichen Menschen, wovon Nr. 3129, 3130; und aus der Bedeutung von essen, sofern es ist, mitgeteilt und angeeignet werden, wovon Nr. 2187, 2343, nämlich Göttliches, wovon oben Nr. 3140, 3141.

3040. 'And you shall take a wife for my son from there' means that the affection for truth came indeed from there, yet from a new source. This is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as the affection for truth, dealt with above. For 'Rebekah' who is referred to in this present chapter represents Divine Truth that was to be joined to the Divine Good of the Rational, which is Isaac. That the affection for truth comes from there, that is to say, from the things meant by 'father's house' and 'land of nativity', yet from a new source, cannot as yet be fully explained, though the matter is dealt with extensively in what follows. Let just a brief explanation be given here. Every affection for truth in the natural man comes into being through an influx from the affection for good from the rational, that is, from the Divine by way of the rational. The affection for truth which through that influx comes into being in the natural man is at first not an affection for genuine truth, for genuine truth arrives gradually. It gradually takes the place of those things previously there which were not truths in themselves, but only means leading on to genuine truth. This brief explanation shows what is meant by the statement that the affection for truth comes indeed from there, yet from a new source.