Energy method for harmonic functions

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I have two questions about the informations bellow that can be found in the book elliptic partial differential equations -QING HAN and FANGHUA LIN - chapter 1-pg 19

If $a_{ij} \in C(B_{1}(0))$ satisfies $\lambda|\xi|^{2}\leq a_{ij}(x)\xi_{i}\xi_{j}\leq \zeta|\xi|^{2}$ (*) for any $x \in B_{1}(0)$ and $\xi \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ for some positive constants $\lambda$ and $\zeta$. We consider the function $u \in C^{1}(B_{1}(0))$ satisfying

$\int_\limits{B_{1}(0)} a_{ij}D_{i}uD_{j}\phi =0$ for any $\phi \in C^{1}_{0}(B^{1}(0)$.

How can i can interpret the relation given by the integral? What is the relation between (*) and the integral ?

Thanks a lot.