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])

137.“看哪, 我必将她丢在床上, 那些与她行淫的人, 我也要叫他们与她同受大苦难”表因此他们不得不留在他们的教义与歪曲中, 并将受到虚假的严重. 很快将看到, “床”表教义; “行淫”表对真理的歪曲(参看134, 136节) ; “苦难”表被虚假侵扰(33, 95, 101节) ; 故“大苦难”表严重侵扰. “床”表教义, 这是出于对应. 因为心智停歇于其教义, 正如身体停歇于床榻. “床”表各人要么从圣言, 要么凭自己的聪明所获取的教义. 心智停歇于教义, 犹如安眠. 在灵界, 各人所卧之床并非来自其它源头; 事实上, 每个人的床取决于其知识和聪明的品质. 智者的床华美, 愚者的床鄙陋, 弄虚作假者的床则污秽.

在路加福音中, 床就具有这种含义:

我对你们说, 当那一夜, 两个人在一个床上, 要取去一个, 撇下一个. (路加福音 17:34)

这论及最后的审判; “两个人在一个床上”表两个人接受同一个教义, 有不同的生活. 约翰福音:

耶稣对病人说, 起来, 拿起你的床, 行走吧; 他拿起自己的床, 行走起来. (约翰福音 5:8-9)

马可福音:

耶稣对瘫子说, 孩子, 你的罪赦了; 祂对文士说, 或说你的罪赦了, 或说起来, 拿你的床行走, 哪一样容易呢? 然后祂说, 起来, 拿你的床行走; 他拿起床, 当众人面前出去了. (马可福音 2:5, 9, 11-12)

显然, 此处的“床”表示某种事物, 因为耶稣说:“或说你的罪赦了, 或说起来, 拿你的床行走, 哪一样容易呢”. “拿他的床行走”表默想教义, 这句话在天堂就是如此理解的.

在阿摩司书, “床”也表教义: ,

牧人怎样从狮子口中抢回, 住撒玛利亚的以色列人躺卧在床角上, 或绣榻的边上. (阿摩司书 3:12)

“躺卧在床角上”和“绣毯的边上”表离教义的真理和良善更远之物. 在其它地方(如以赛亚书 28:20; 57:2, 7-8; 以西结书 23:41; 阿摩司书 6:4; 弥迦书 2:1; 诗篇 4:4; 36:4; 41:3; 约伯记 7:13; 利未记 15:4-5) , “床”, “榻”和“寝室”(bed chamber) 有相同的含义. 在圣言的先知书中, “雅各”表教会的教义, 故经上论到他说:

他靠着床头上屈身下拜. (创世记 47:31)

约瑟来了, 他在床上坐起来. (创世记 48:2)

他把脚收在床上断了气. (创世记 49:33)

“雅各”表教会的教义, 所以有时, 当我想起雅各时, 前头上方就有一人显现出来, 躺卧在床上.