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])

9380. “百姓也不可和他一同上来” 表与脱离内在的外在没有任何结合. 这从 “上来” 的含义清楚可知,

“上来” 是指结合, 如前所述 (9373节), 在此是指没有结合, 因为经上说 “不可上来”. 它之所以表示与脱离内在意义的圣言外在意义没有结合, 是因为此处 “百姓” 所指的雅各的子孙局限于没有任何内在事物的外在事物 (参看3479, 4281, 4293, 4307, 4429, 4433, 4680, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4868, 4874, 4899, 4903, 4911, 4913, 6304, 8588, 8788, 8806, 8871节). 他们专注于没有任何内在事物的外在事物, 这一点从此后四十天, 他们就敬拜金牛犊很明显地看出来. 他们若同时意识到内在事物, 也就是对耶和华的爱和信之良善, 就会有不同的行为; 因为这良善就是内在之物. 那些通过这良善与祂结合的人不可能离开去敬拜一个偶像, 因为他们的心远离它. 但由于这百姓仅通过外在事物与主结合, 他们通过外在事物来代表内在事物, 所以经上说 “这百姓不可走近”, 意思是, 与缺乏内在事物的外在事物没有任何结合. 没有关于所代表的内层事物的任何知识, 信仰和情感的代表会将事物联结起来, 但不会将这个人联结起来.

这种情况与那些仅持守圣言的字义, 根本没有从圣言获得任何教义的人很相似, 因为他们与内义分离, 而内义是教义本身. 主通过圣言的内层事物与圣言的外在事物结合; 因此, 如果内层事物被分离出去, 主与外在事物的结合是不可能的, 除非如同和一个与内心不一致的身体姿势结合. 这种情况也与那些精通其教会教义的一切细节, 却不将它们应用于生活的人很相似. 他们也局限于缺乏任何内在事物的外在事物, 因为对这些人来说, 教义真理若没有铭刻在他们的生命上, 就只占据外在位置. 主与这些真理没有结合的原因是, 主通过一个人的生命, 因而通过在真理里面的灵魂进入他的信之真理.