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])

7296. “于是, 法老召了智慧人和术士来” 表对神性秩序的滥用. 这从 “智慧人” 和 “术士” 的含义清楚可知. “智慧人” 是指那些具有属灵事物, 以及它们与属世事物的对应关系的知识之人; 由于这些事物具有神秘性, 所以那些研究并教导它们的人被称为他们当中的 “智慧人”. 埃及人因专注于这类事物, 故自称 “智慧人的儿子”, “古王之子”, 这一点明显可见于以赛亚书:

你们怎敢对法老说, 我是智慧人的儿子, 我是古王之子? (以赛亚书 19:11)

埃及人将关于属灵事物的知识称为 “智慧”, 迦勒底人也是 (耶利米书 50:35). “术士” 是指那些败坏神性秩序, 因而败坏秩序的律法之人. 巫术和法术没有别的意思, 这一点从来世的术士和巫师可以看出来, 来世有大量的术士和巫师. 因为活在肉身时就使用诡计, 并想出许多花招欺骗他人, 最终因得逞而将一切事都归地自己的精明之人在来世都学习巫术. 这些巫术无非是对神性秩序, 尤其对对应关系的滥用. 因为按照神性秩序, 每一个事物都具有某种对应关系. 例如, 手, 臂, 肩对应于能力, 杖也由此对应于能力; 他们因知道这一点, 便为自己制作了杖, 还以代表的形式制造出肩, 臂和手, 然后利用它们行法术; 并且能用成千上万种其它事物而如此行. 当属于秩序的事物不用于良善的目的, 反而用于邪恶的目的, 如掌控别人, 给他们带来毁灭时, 对秩序和对应关系的滥用就会存在; 因为秩序的目的是拯救, 因而是指向所有人行善. 由此可见 “术士” 所表示的对秩序的滥用是什么意思.