AE 513 - manna & quail

AE 513 [6]
The sons of Israel said in the wilderness,
We remember the fish that we did eat in Egypt freely,
and the cucumbers and the melons,
and the leeks and the onions and the garlic;
now our soul is dried up;
there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes.
Afterwards there went forth a wind from Jehovah,
and snatched quails from the sea,
and let them fall over the camp.
But because of this lust
Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague;
consequently the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust.
(Numbers 11:5, 6, 31, 33, 34)

This signified that the sons of Israel were averse from things spiritual
and hungered after natural things;
indeed, they were not spiritual but merely natural,
only representing a spiritual church by external things.
That they were averse from spiritual things is signified by
"our soul is dried up,
there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes,"
"manna" signifying spiritual food,
which is knowledge (scientia), intelligence, and wisdom.
That they hungered after natural things is signified by
"their lusting after the fish in Egypt,
the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic,"
all which signify such things as belong to the lowest natural,
that is, the sensual-corporeal of a person;
and because they rejected things spiritual,
and coveted merely natural things instead,
"they were smitten with a great plague,
and the name given to the place was the Graves of Lust."