私たちの体は食事をすると、食べ物を分解して、そこからエネルギーと体を作ったり、修復したりするための材料の両方を得ます。

そのプロセスは、聖書の中の象徴的なレベルでは、はるかに同じです。食べ物は、善への欲求と、その善への欲求から来る洞察力、つまり主から来る善と理解を表しています。しかし、それらを利用するためには、私たちはそれらを取り込んで自分のものにしなければなりません。

(References: 啓示による黙示録解説89; 天界の秘義3168, 3596 [2], 3734, 8410, 8464, 8467)

8410. 'Eating bread to the full!' means that in that situation they enjoyed the good of lower pleasures, as much as they wished to have. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as making one's own, dealt with in 3168, 3513 (end), 3596, 4745, and also as enjoyment, 7849; from the meaning of 'bread' as the good of heavenly life, and in the contrary sense the good of natural life separated from heavenly, thus the good of lower pleasures (in the spiritual sense 'bread' means the chief thing that nourishes the soul and maintains its spiritual life, that chief thing being the good of love, as heaven's life demonstrates, which consists wholly of that good. But in the contrary sense 'bread' is used to mean the chief thing that nourishes those in hell and sustains their life, that chief thing being the evil of self-love and love of the world, as hell's life demonstrates, which consists wholly in that evil. To those in hell that evil is good, for to them nothing is more delightful or sweeter; and it is this that is meant here by the good of lower pleasures); and from the meaning of 'to the full' as, as much as they wished to have, since the will is what is filled with good if people are good, or with evil if they are evil.