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])

3217. 当天使的讨论涉及心智的理性力部分时, 就有马出现在他们之下的灵人界, 也就是与他们相对应的社群. 这些马的大小, 体形, 颜色, 姿态和各种装饰, 皆取决于天使对于认知所持的观念. 还有一个相当深的地方, 靠右一点, 被称为聪明人的居所. 那里也经常出现马, 这是因为那里的人在思考认知; 当讨论认知的天使流入这些灵人的思维时, 就会有马的形像出现. 我由此明白先知们所看到的马, 以及圣言别处所提及的马是什么意思, 也就是说, 它们表示认知的各个方面 (2760-2762节).