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먹었으나 먹은듯하지 아니하여 여전히 흉악하더라 내가 곧 깨었다가
5540. 'All these things will be upon me' means that, when this is so, that which constitutes the Church will have been destroyed. This is clear from the representation of Jacob, who says this about himself, as the Church, dealt with in 5536. When neither the internal represented by 'Joseph' nor faith in the will represented by 'Simeon' exist within the Church, and if the intermediary, represented by 'Benjamin', that effects the joining together is taken away, that which constitutes the Church has been destroyed. These are the factors meant by 'all these things will be upon me'.