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])

1306. “一座塔” 表自我崇拜. 这从 “塔” 的含义清楚可知. 当人将自己置于他人之上, 甚至到了被崇拜的地步时, 自我崇拜就产生了. 所以, 我欲, 也就是骄傲自大, 就称作 “高大”, “高耸”, “抬高”, 凡在高处的事物都用来描述它, 如以赛亚书:

到那日, 眼目高傲的必降为卑, 性情狂傲的都必屈膝, 惟独耶和华被尊崇. 必有万军耶和华降罚的一个日子, 要临到骄傲狂妄的, 一切自高的都必降为卑; 又临到黎巴嫩高大的香柏树和巴珊的橡树; 又临到一切高山和耸峙的山岭; 又临到高塔和坚固城墙. (以赛亚书 2:11-18)

这论及我欲, 以在高处和被拔高的 “香柏树”, “橡树”, “高山”, “山岭”, “高塔” 来描述.

同一先知书:

在大行杀戮的日子, 高塔倒塌的时候, 各高山冈陵必有溪水涌流. (以赛亚书 30:25)

此处 “塔” 同样表我欲和敬拜中的高傲. 又:

看哪, 迦勒底人之地向来没有这民; 亚述已将她委弃予野兽; 他们要设立瞭望塔, 拔高宫殿, 他必将她毁灭. (以赛亚书 23:13)

这论及推罗及其荒废. “瞭望塔” 是 “塔” 的另一种表述, 表由此而来的幻想. 以西结书:

推罗啊, 我必使许多国民上来攻击你, 他们必破坏推罗的墙垣, 拆毁她的高塔; 我也要刮净她的尘土, 使她成为净光的磐石. (以赛亚书 26:3-4)

此处 “塔” 有同样的含义.

敬拜中的我欲, 或自我崇拜, 被称作 “塔”, 这是因为 “城” 表教义, 如前所述 (402节), 以前, 塔用于城市的防御工事, 里面有守望的人. 城市边境也有塔, 因此, 它们被称作 “瞭望楼” (列王记下 9:17; 17:9; 18:8) 和 “瞭望塔” (以赛亚书 23:13). 此外, 当主的教会被比作 “葡萄园” 时, 敬拜的事物, 以及对敬拜的维护就被比作 “压酒池” 和 “葡萄园中的瞭望塔”, 这明显可见于以赛亚书 (5:1, 2), 马太福音 (21:33) 和马可福音 (12:1).