AC 3318 - "And he was weary." (Genesis 25:29)

AC 3318
That "weary" here signifies a state of combat . . .
 
. . . A person is nothing but an organ, or vessel,
which receives life from the Lord . . ..
The life which inflows with a person from the Lord
is from His Divine love.
This love, or the life . . . inflows and applies itself
to the vessels (truths) which are in a person's rational,
and to those which are in his natural.
In consequence of the hereditary evil
into which a person is born,
and of the actual evil which he acquires,
these vessels are in a contrary position within him
relative to the inflowing life (from the Lord),
yet so far as the life which flows in
can dispose the vessels to receive it,
it does so dispose them.
These vessels in the rational person, and in the natural,
are what are called truths . . ..
Good itself, which has life from the Lord,
or which is life,
is that which flows in and disposes. 

. . . This cannot possibly be effected
so long as the person is in that state into which he is born,
and to which he has reduced himself;
for the vessels are not obedient,
being obstinately resistant, and hardening themselves
against the heavenly order according to which the life acts;
for the good which moves them, and with which they comply,
is of the love of self and of the world
. . . and therefore before they can be rendered compliant
and fit to receive anything of the life of the Lord's love,
they must be softened.
This softening is effected by no other means than temptations;
for temptations remove all that is of the love of self
and of contempt for others in comparison with self,
consequently all that is of self-glory,
and also of hatred and revenge on this account.
When therefore the vessels have been
somewhat tempered and subdued by temptations,
they begin to become yielding to, and compliant with,
the life of the Lord's love,
which continually flows in with a person.

. . . it is then that good begins to be conjoined with truths;
first in the rational person, and afterwards in the natural . . ..
This is the reason why a person is regenerated,
that is, made new, by temptations;
or what is the same, by spiritual combats;
and that he is afterwards gifted with another nature;
being made mild, humble, simple, and contrite in heart.
From these considerations
it may now be seen what use temptations promote,
namely, that good from the Lord may not only flow in,
but may also dispose the vessels to obedience,
and thus conjoin itself with them.
. . .  the first of conjunction takes place
by means of combats,
which are those of temptations,
it is evident that by "he was weary" is signified a state of combat. 

But as regards the Lord,
who in the supreme sense is here treated of,
He by the most grievous temptation combats
reduced all things in Himself into Divine order,
insomuch that there remained nothing at all of the human
which He had derived from the mother,
so that He was not made new as are other people,
but altogether Divine.
For the person who is made new by regeneration
still retains in himself an inclination to evil,
and even evil itself;
but is withheld from evil by an influx of the life of the Lord's love,
and this with a force exceeding great;
whereas the Lord utterly cast out
all the evil that was hereditary to Him from the mother,
and made Himself Divine,
even as to the vessels, that is, as to truths.
This is that which in the Word is called "glorification."