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])

749. “有公有母” 表真理与良善. 这一点从前面所述 (创世记 7:2, 3) 清楚可知, 那里 “一公一母” 与飞鸟相关, 而 “男人与妻子” 则与牲畜相关, 然后还阐明了原因, 即, 意愿之物会与觉知之物结婚, 而觉知之物就本身而言, 却未能与意愿之物结婚. 前者作为 “男人与妻子” 存在, 而后者作为 “一公一母” 存在. 由于此处的主题首先是涉及那人觉知之物的试探, 如前所述, 故用了 “一公一母” 这个词, 并且是指涉及觉知之物的争战或试探.