AC 1460 - Famine

AC  1460 [1,4]

There was a famine in the land.
(Genesis 12:10

That this means a scarcity of knowledges
as yet with the Lord when a child,
is evident from what has been already said.
During childhood the knowledges in a person
never come from that which is interior,
but from the objects of the senses,
especially from the hearing.
For, as before said,
there are in the external person receiving vessels,
called the things of the memory,
and these are formed by means of knowledges --
as everybody may know --
the internal person flowing in and helping;
consequently knowledges are learned
and are implanted in the memory
in accordance with the influx of the internal person.
Thus also was it with the Lord when He was a child --
for He was born as are other people
and was instructed as are other people --
but with Him the interiors were celestial,
which adapted the vessels
for the reception of the knowledges,
and in such a way
that the knowledges should afterwards become
vessels to receive the Divine.
The interiors with Him were Divine,
from Jehovah His Father;
the exteriors were human,
from Mary His mother.
So it may be seen that with the Lord,
equally as with other people,
there was in His external person,
during His childhood, a scarcity of knowledges.

[4] In John:

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore.
(Rev. 7:16)

concerning the Lord's kingdom,
where there is an abundance
of all celestial knowledges and goods,
which is "not to hunger;"
and of spiritual knowledges and truths,
which is "not to thirst."

In like manner spoke the Lord in John:

I am the Bread of life
he that comes to Me shall never hunger,
and he that believes on Me shall never thirst.
(John 6:35).

And in Luke:

Blessed are you that hunger now,
for you shall be filled.
(Luke 6:21)

And again:

He has filled the hungry with good things.
(Luke 1:53)