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])

3877. “于是给他起名叫利未” 表它的根本性质. 这从 “名” 和 “起名” 的含义清楚可知, “名” 和 “起名” 是指根本性质, 如前所述 (3872节). 这种性质就包含在这些话中: “这次我男人必与我联合, 因为我给他生了三个儿子”, 如刚才所述 (3875, 3876节). 这种性质就是 “利未” 和以他命名的支派所表示的, 这是教会的第三个普遍属性, 或人正在重生或变成教会时的第三个发展阶段, 也就是仁爱. 至于仁爱, 情况是这样: 它包含对真理的意愿在里面, 并通过对真理的意愿而包含对真理的理解在里面. 因为凡处于仁爱的, 都拥有这些意愿并理解真理的能力. 人在到达仁爱之前, 必须经历一个外在阶段, 也就是说, 先理解真理, 然后真理, 直到最后他拥有对真理的情感, 也就是仁爱. 当仁爱存在于人里面时, 他注目于主, 主在至高意义上由雅各的第四个儿子 “犹大” 来表示.