1183. “以力, 亚甲, 甲尼, 都在示拿地” 的具体含义不是很清楚, 因为除了甲尼 (阿摩司书 6:2) 外, 这些名字在圣言中再没有提及; 不过, 他们是指这类敬拜的各种形式. 至于具有这些敬拜的示拿地, 在圣言中, 它表其中含有亵渎之物的外在敬拜, 这从它在下一章 (创世记 11:2), 以及撒迦利亚书 (5:11), 尤其但以理书中的含义明显可知, 那里出现了这些话:

主将犹大王约雅敬, 并神殿中器皿的几份交付巴别王尼布甲尼撒的手; 他就把这器皿带到示拿地, 收入他神的庙里, 放在他神的宝库中. (但以理书 1:2)

这表示神圣事物遭到亵渎: “神殿中的器皿” 表神圣事物; “巴别王在示拿地的神庙” 表神圣事物被带入其中的亵渎之物. 尽管这些都是历史事件, 但它们仍包含这些奥秘, 和圣言的所有历史事件一样. 这个问题从对相同器皿 (但以理书 5:3-5) 的亵渎更清楚地看出来. 若这些事件不代表神圣事物, 它们绝不会发生.

In Genesis 19:37; 21:26; 30:32; 40:7; Matthew 6:30; Luke 12:28, this signifies the perpetuity and eternity of a state. (Arcana Coelestia 2838)

In Psalm 2:7, this signifies in time; for with Jehovah the future is present. (True Christian Religion 101)

The expression 'even to this day' or 'today' sometimes appears in the Word, as in Genesis 19:37-38, 22:14, 26:33, 32:32, 35:20, and 47:26. In a historical sense, these expressions have respect to the time when Moses lived, but in an internal sense, 'this day' and 'today' signify the perpetuity and eternity of a state. 'Day' denotes state, and likewise 'today,' which is the current time. Anything related to time in the world is eternal in heaven, and to represent this, 'today' or 'to this day' is added. Although, in the historical sense, this appears as if the expressions only have a literal meaning, just like it says in other parts of the Word, such as Joshua 4:9, 6:25, 7:20, Judges 1:21, 26, etc. 'Today' means something perpetual and eternal in Psalms 2:7, 119:89-91, Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18, Deuteronomy 29:9-14, Numbers 28:3, 23, Daniel 8:13, 11:31, 12:11, Exodus 16:4, 19, 20, 23, John 6:31, 32, 49, 50, 58, Matthew 6:11, and Luke 11:3.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2838 [1-4], Genesis 47:26)