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以西结书 23:13

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13 见他被玷污了,他姊妹人同行

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Jerusalem

  

Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

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Girdle

  
Reconstruction of a Roman centurio - cingulum ( belt ), pugio ( dagger ) and gladius ( sword ), photo by Wolfgang Sauber

In the Word, girdles, belts, or sashes (as in Exodus 28:4) stand for good external goals that link the things in our hearts and minds into a state of cooperation and oneness of purpose. 'And a belt' means a common bond to ensure that everything has the same end in view. (Arcana Coelestia 9828) A second meaning is mentioned in Arcana Coelestia 9944, that belts or girdles can create distinct layers, in a way: "a separation from the outward things is also meant is that the bond gathers and holds together within itself the inward things; and this also separates them from the outward ones." In a way, the whole point of trying to accept the Lord and align ourselves with His love and His leading is so that we can express what is good in life -- actually doing things in the world that really benefit other people. These external acts are the lowest form of goodness, but they are the culmination of the higher forms. This has a bonding effect: a whole chain of desires for good and true ideas come together in external action. In some cases, girdles are used to cover the genitals. Since the genitals represent the love of marriage, these girdles represent the external good things that support marriage on all its levels: the marriage of husbands and wives, the marriage of what is good and what is true in each of us as individuals, and the ultimate marriage between each of us and the Lord.

In Revelation 1:13, as another example, there's a description of "one like unto the son of man", who is "girded about the breasts with a golden girdle," symbolizing the "emanating and conjoining Divinity which is Divine good." (Apocalypse Revealed 46)