AC 8562 - "And there was no water for the people to drink." (Exodus 17:1)

AC 8562
And there was no water for the people to drink.
"water," as being the truth of faith;
"drinking," as being to be instructed in the truths of faith
and to receive them, here, to be refreshed;
For as water and drink refresh the natural life,
so truths and the knowledges of truth refresh the spiritual life.
For he who is in spiritual life longs for the sustenance thereof
from such things as are called heavenly food and drink,
which are the goods and truths of faith;
in like manner as he who is in the natural life
longs for sustenance from such things as are natural food and drink.

[2] That temptation as to truth is now treated of,
is because temptation as to good was treated of just before,
after which temptation they received the manna,
by which is signified good.
For when a person is endowed with good by the Lord,
he comes into a longing for truth,
and this longing is kindled according to the lack of truth,
because good continually strives after truth.
All the genuine affection of truth is from good.
The case herein is like food,
which without drink cannot nourish the natural life;
and it is also like it in that food longs for drink,
with which it may be conjoined so as to serve for use.
This then is the reason why temptation as to truth follows immediately
after temptation as to good.
Temptation attacks that which a man loves and longs for.