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耶利米书 33

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1 耶利米还囚在护卫兵的院内,耶和华的第二次临到他说:

2 成就的是耶和华,造作、为要建立的也是耶和华耶和华是他的名。他如此

3 你求告我,我就应允你,并将你所不知道、又又难的事指示你。

4 论到这城中的房屋犹大的宫室,就是拆毁为挡敌人高垒和刀的,耶和华以色列的如此

5 人要与迦勒底人争战,正是拿死尸充满这房屋,就是我在怒气和忿怒中所杀的人,因他们的一切恶,我就掩面不顾这城。

6 看哪,我要使这城得以痊愈安舒,使城中的人得医治,又将丰盛的平安和诚实显明与他们。

7 我也要使犹大被掳的和以色列被掳的归回,并建立他们和起初一样。

8 我要除净他们的一切罪,就是向我所犯的罪;又要赦免他们的一切罪,就是干犯我、违背我的罪。

9 这城要在上万国人面前使我得颂赞,得荣耀,名为可喜可乐之城。万国人因见我向这城所赐的福乐、所施的恩惠平安,就惧怕战兢。

10 耶和华如此:你们论这地方是荒废无人民无牲畜之地,但在这荒凉无人民无牲畜犹大城邑和耶路撒冷的街上,

11 必再听见有欢喜和快乐的声音新郎和新妇的声音,并听见有人:要称谢万军之耶和华,因耶和华本为善;他的慈爱永远长存!又有奉感谢祭到耶和华殿中之人的声音;因为我必使这被掳的人归回,和起初一样。这是耶和华的。

12 万军之耶和华如此:在这荒废无人民无牲畜之地,并其中所有的城邑,必再有牧人的住处;他们要使羊群躺卧在那里。

13 的城邑、高原的城邑、的城邑、便雅悯耶路撒冷四围的各处,和犹大的城邑必再有羊群从数点的人经过。这是耶和华的。

14 耶和华:日子将到,我应许以色列家和犹大家的恩言必然成就。

15 当那日子,那时候,我必使大卫的苗裔长起来;他必在上施行公平和公

16 在那日子犹大必得耶路撒冷必安然居住,他的名必称为耶和华─我们的

17 因为耶和华如此大卫必永不断以色列家的宝座上;

18 祭司、利未在我面前也不断献燔祭、烧素祭,时常办理献祭的事。

19 耶和华的临到耶利米说:

20 耶和华如此:你们若能废弃我所立白日黑夜的约,使白日黑夜不按时轮转,

21 就能废弃我与我仆人大卫所立的约,使他没有儿子在他的宝座上为王,并能废弃我与事奉我的祭司、利未人所立的约。

22 上的万象不能数算,边的尘沙也不能斗量;我必照样使我仆人大卫的後裔和事奉我的利未人多起来。

23 耶和华的临到耶利米说:

24 你没有揣摩这百姓的话麽?他们耶和华所拣选的族,他已经弃绝了。他们这样藐视我的百姓,以为不再成国。

25 耶和华如此:若是我立白日黑夜的约不能存住,若是我未曾安排的定例,

26 我就弃绝雅各的後裔和我仆人大卫的後裔,不使大卫的後裔治理亚伯拉罕以撒雅各的後裔;因为我必使他们被掳的人归回,也必怜悯他们。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 194

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194. "'And the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem.'" This symbolically means that they will have the doctrine of the New Church engraved on their hearts.

The New Jerusalem symbolizes the New Church, and when it is called a city, it symbolizes the New Church in respect to its doctrine. Therefore to "write on him the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem," means, symbolically, that they will have the doctrine of the New Church engraved on their hearts.

To be shown that Jerusalem symbolizes the church, and that as a city it means the church in respect to its doctrine, see nos. 880, 881, below.

A city symbolizes doctrine because a land, and particularly the land of Canaan, symbolizes a church in its entirety; and the inheritances into which the land of Canaan was divided consequently symbolized various components of the church, and the cities in it doctrines. Because of this, when cities are mentioned in the Word, the angels understand them to mean nothing else. I have also had this attested for me through a good deal of experience.

The case with this is the same as with the symbolic meanings of mountains, hills, valleys, springs, and rivers, all of which symbolize such things as have to do with the church.

[2] That cities symbolize doctrines can be seen to some extent from the following passages:

The land shall be... emptied..., the land shall be turned upside down..., the land shall be profaned... The empty city shall be broken down... What is left in the city shall be waste, and the gate shall be stricken even to its destruction. (Isaiah 3; 4; 5; 10; 11; 12)

The lion has come up from his thicket..., to make your land a wasteland. Your cities will be destroyed... I beheld... Carmel a wilderness, and all its cities desolate... ...the land shall mourn... The whole city shall flee..., forsaken... (Jeremiah 4:7, 26-29)

The land there is the church, and the city is its doctrine. The devastation of the church by doctrinal falsities is described in this way.

The despoiler shall come upon every city, so that no city escapes. The valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed... (Jeremiah 48:8)

Likewise:

Behold, I have made you this day as a fortified city... against the whole land... (Jeremiah 1:18)

This was addressed to the prophet because a prophet symbolizes the doctrine of the church (no. 8).

On that day they will sing... in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." (Isaiah 26:1-2)

...the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. (Revelation 16:18-19)

(The prophet saw) on a very high mountain... the structure of a city to the south... (And an angel measured the wall, the gates, their chambers, and the vestibule of the gate,) and the name of the city... shall be JEHOVAH IS THERE. (Ezekiel 40:1ff., 48:35)

There is a river whose streams have made glad the city of God? (Psalms 46:4-5)

I will embroil Egypt with Egypt, so that... city (fights) against city, and kingdom against kingdom. (Isaiah 19:2)

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city... divided against itself will not stand. (Matthew 12:25)

Cities in these passages mean, in the spiritual sense, doctrines, as is the case also in Isaiah 6:11; 14:4, 17, 21; 19:18-19; 25:1-3; 33:8-9; 54:3; 64:10, and elsewhere.

[3] From the symbolic meaning of a city it can be seen what cities mean in this parable of the Lord:

A... nobleman (going) into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom..., delivered to (his servants) minas (with which to) do business... ...when he returned..., he (called the) servants... The first came, saying, ."..your mina has earned ten minas," and he said to him, ."..good servant..., you shall have authority over ten cities." And the second came, saying, ."..your mina has earned five minas." And he said... to him, "You also be over five cities." (Luke 19:12-19)

Cities here likewise symbolize doctrines or doctrinal truths, and to be over them is to be intelligent and wise. Thus to give power over them is to impart intelligence and wisdom. Ten symbolizes much, and five some. It is apparent that to do business and earn a profit means to acquire intelligence for oneself by making use of one's abilities.

[4] That the holy city Jerusalem symbolizes the doctrine of the New Church is clearly apparent from its description in chapter 21 of the book of Revelation, for it is described in respect to its dimensions, its gates, and its wall and foundations, and inasmuch as Jerusalem symbolizes the church, these can symbolize nothing other than matters having to do with its doctrine. Neither is the church a church on any other basis.

Because the city Jerusalem means the church in respect to doctrine, it is therefore called the City of Truth (Zechariah 8:3-4), and in many places a holy city, and this because holiness is predicated of truths derived from the Lord (no. 173).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.