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以西结书 23:2

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2 人子啊,有两个女子,是母所生,

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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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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 146

  
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146. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 23

The church which is in truth, and the church which is in good. (2)

1-2 There are two churches, one which is in truth, which is Samaria, and the other which is in good, which is Jerusalem. (2)

3 Both are external natural, perverted in the beginning. (2)

5-8 Samaria falsified the truths of the Word by reasonings from knowledges [scientifica];, (2, 3)

9-10 thus she became corrupted. (2, 3)

11-13 Jerusalem likewise falsified truths, (2, 3)

14-17 and adulterated goods also by various means. (2, 3)

18 Thereby she separated herself from the Lord, (2)

19 and defiled truths and goods still further by knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man. (2)

22-25 They will wholly perish on the day of judgment. (15)

26-27 Thus the truths and goods of the church will no longer be perverted. (15)

28-31 They will be in hell where there is nothing but evils and falsities. (15)

32-34 They will also be in the falsification of all truth; (15)

35 and this, because they have denied the Lord. (4)

36-39 They have destroyed all the holy things of the church. (3)

40-42 They boasted before others because of their having the Word and the holy things of the church, (3)

43-45 although these were entirely falsified and adulterated. (3)

46-49 Falsities and evils will destroy all things of the church among them, and such must be separated that they may no longer mislead. (3, 11)

  
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