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])
创世记 29
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看见田间有一口井,有三群羊卧在井旁;因为人饮羊群都是用那井里的水。井口上的石头是大的。
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常有羊群在那里聚集,牧人把石头转离井口饮羊,随後又把石头放在井口的原处。
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雅各对牧人说:弟兄们,你们是那里来的?他们说:我们是哈兰来的。
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他问他们说:拿鹤的孙子拉班,你们认识麽?他们说:我们认识。
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雅各说:他平安麽?他们说:平安。看哪,他女儿拉结领着羊来了。
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雅各说:日头还高,不是羊群聚集的时候,你们不如饮羊,再去放一放。
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他们说:我们不能,必等羊群聚齐,人把石头转离井口才可饮羊。
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雅各正和他们说话的时候,拉结领着他父亲的羊来了,因为那些羊是他牧放的。
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雅各看见母舅拉班的女儿拉结和母舅拉班的羊群,就上前把石头转离井口,饮他母舅拉班的羊群。
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雅各告诉拉结,自己是他父亲的外甥,是利百加的儿子,拉结就跑去告诉他父亲。
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拉班听见外甥雅各的信息,就跑去迎接,抱着他,与他亲嘴,领他到自己的家。雅各将一切的情由告诉拉班。
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拉班对他说:你实在是我的骨肉。雅各就和他同住了一个月。
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拉班对雅各说:你虽是我的骨肉(原文作弟兄),岂可白白地服事我?请告诉我,你要甚麽为工价?
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雅各就为拉结服事了七年;他因为深爱拉结,就看这七年如同几天。
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雅各对拉班说:日期已经满了,求你把我的妻子给我,我好与他同房。
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到了早晨,雅各一看是利亚,就对拉班说:你向我做的是甚麽事呢?我服事你,不是为拉结麽?你为甚麽欺哄我呢?
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拉班说:大女儿还没有给人,先把小女儿给人,在我们这地方没有这规矩。
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你为这个满了七日,我就把那个也给你,你再为他服事我七年。
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雅各就如此行。满了利亚的七日,拉班便将女儿拉结给雅各为妻。
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雅各也与拉结同房,并且爱拉结胜似爱利亚,於是又服事了拉班七年。
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耶和华见利亚失宠(原文作被恨;下同),就使他生育,拉结却不生育。
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利亚怀孕生子,就给他起名叫流便(就是有儿子的意思),因而说:耶和华看见我的苦情,如今我的丈夫必爱我。
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他又怀孕生子,就说:耶和华因为听见我失宠,所以又赐给我这个儿子,於是给他起名叫西缅(就是听见的意思)。