Break bread
To break bread means, literally, to share a loaf of bread at a meal. It symbolizes mutual love in the inner meaning of the Word. (Arcana Coelestia 5405)
In Matthew 14:19, this signifies a mutual sharing of love. (Arcana Coelestia 5405)
In John 6:31-35, this represents the Lord, Who is heaven itself, and all love and charity by which man lives. (Arcana Coelestia 2165[4, 5])
Faith # 54
54. We can see from the following passages that circumcision represented purification from evils that are caused by strictly earthly love:
Circumcise your heart and take away the foreskin of your heart, so that my wrath will not break forth because of the ill will of your deeds. (Jeremiah 4:4)
Circumcise the foreskin of your heart and no longer stiffen your neck. (Deuteronomy 10:16)
To circumcise the heart or the foreskin of the heart is to purify ourselves from evils.
Conversely, then, being uncircumcised or having a foreskin refers to people who have not been purified from evils caused by strictly earthly love and who are therefore not devoted to caring, and since having a foreskin means being unclean at heart, it says that no one who is uncircumcised at heart or uncircumcised in the flesh is to enter the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:9); that no uncircumcised person is to eat the Passover meal (Exodus 12:48); and that the uncircumcised are damned (Ezekiel 28:10; 31:18; 32:19).