9054. 'Foot for foot' means if anything of the power of natural truth [is injured]. This is clear from the meaning of 'foot' as the natural, dealt with in 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, [in particular] the power of natural truth, 5327, 5328.

The term 'Hebrew' is used in the Word to signify anything relating to service, whatever its nature may be. Hence Abraham, in one passage only (in Genesis 14), is called 'the Hebrew,' because he represented the Lord's interior man, to which is joined to the internal or divine man. The interior man is such that it serves the internal or divine man.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1702, Genesis 14:13)