Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 3736foods which correspond to earthly foods. As goods are food, sotruths are drink.[4] “Food” is mentioned in many places in the Word, and onewho is not acquainted with the internal sense cannot know but thatordinary food is there meant, whereas it is spiritual food; as inJeremiah:All the people groan, seeking bread; they have given their desirablethings for food, to refresh the soul (Lam. 1:11).In Isaiah:In Joel:Everyone that thirsteth, go ye to the waters, and he that hath nosilver, go ye, buy, and eat; yea, go, buy wine and milk without silver andwithout price (Isa. 55:1).The day of Jehovah is near, and as devastation from the thunderershall it come. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, gladness and joyfrom the house of our God? The grains have rotted under their clods;the garners are devastated, the barns are destroyed, because the corn iswithered (Joel 1:15–17).In David:Our garners are full, bringing forth from food to food; our flocksare thousands and ten thousands in our streets. There is no cry in ourstreets; blessed is the people that is in such a case (Ps. 144:13–15).All things wait for thee, that thou mayest give them their food inits time. Thou givest them, they gather; thou openest thy hand, they aresated with good (Ps. 104:27–28).[5] In these passages celestial and spiritual food is meant in theinternal sense, while material food is meant in the sense of theletter. From this it is plain in what manner the interiors andexteriors of the Word, or those things therein which are of thespirit, and those which are of the letter, correspond to each other;so that while man understands these things according to the sense