When we eat, our bodies break down the food and get from it both energy and materials for building and repairing the body. The process is similar on a symbolic level in the Bible. Food represents the desire for good and the insight that comes from that desire for good – goodness and understanding that come from the Lord. But to put them to use we have to take them in and make them our own – which is spiritual eating.

In Habakkuk 3:3, these signify the Lord's Divine Human as to celestial love. (Arcana Coelestia 2714)

'The inhabitants of Teman,' in Jeremiah 49:20 signify the evils and falsities opposed to the Lord's celestial kingdom.

(Izinkomba: Apocalypse Explained 400)