Daniel refuses the food and drink from the king's table
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Apocalypse Explained, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1757-9], tr. by John Whitehead [1911], at sacred-texts.com
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In Luke: The rich man said to his soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid
up for many years; take thy rest, eat, drink (12:19). If that servant
shall say in his heart, The Lord delayeth to come; and shall begin to
beat the servants, to eat, to drink, and to be drunken (12:45). So, too,
by surfeiting and drunkenness, in the same: Jesus said, Take heed to
yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and
drunkenness (Luke 21:34). It seems as if "eating and drinking" and
"surfeiting [consume too much of something] in these passages mean such luxury and intemperance [excessive indulgence, especially in alcohol] as
those indulge in who follow appetite only; this is indeed the natural
literal sense of these words; but in their spiritual sense they mean the
appropriation of evil and falsity, as can be seen from the passages
cited above, where this is signified by "eating and drinking," also from
this, that the Word in the letter is natural, but interiorly is
spiritual; the spiritual sense is for the angels, and the natural for
men.
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