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])

5702. “那原是埃及人所憎恶的” 表他们处于对立面. 这从 “埃及人” 和 “希伯来人” 的代表清楚可知: “埃及人” 是指那些处于颠倒次序的人 (参看5700节); 与 “希伯来人” 吃饭原是埃及人所憎恶的, 其中 “希伯来人” 是指那些处于真正次序的人 (5701节). 因此, 这二者是彼此对立的, 这种对立产生强烈的厌恶, 最终成了可憎恶的. 关于这种憎恶, 要知道, 那些处于颠倒次序, 也就是陷入邪恶和随之的虚假之人最终会变得如此厌恶教会的良善与真理, 以致当听见它们, 尤其听见它们的内层事物时, 他们发现这些东西如此可憎, 以致他们觉得恶心, 想要呕吐. 当我想知道为何基督教界不接受圣言的这些内层事物时, 便被告知并指示这一点. 基督教界的灵人出现了, 并被迫听见圣言的内层; 然后他们因这些东西而如此恶心, 以致他们说, 他们觉得自己很想呕吐. 我也被告知, 这就是当今基督教界的样子, 几乎处处都是这样. 基督教界之所以成了这样子, 是因为他们没有为了真理的缘故而对真理的情感, 更没有出于良善而对良善的任何情感. 他们基于圣言或其教义所思, 所说的任何东西, 都是出于自童年早期所习得的习惯, 出于宗教习俗, 因而是一种没有内在的外在.

后来在雅各的后代当中所建立的希伯来教会的一切都是埃及人所憎恶的, 这一事实不仅从他们不愿与希伯来人一同吃饭, 而且还从他们憎恶希伯来教会视之为敬拜的主要部分的祭祀明显看出来, 这一点清楚可见于摩西五经:

法老说, 你们去, 在这地祭祀你们的神吧! 摩西说, 这样行本不相宜, 因为我们要把埃及人所憎恶的祭祀耶和华我们的神; 看哪, 若把埃及人所憎恶的, 在他们眼前献为祭, 他们岂不拿石头打死我们吗? (出埃及记 8:25, 26)

牧养牲畜, 作牧人, 也是他们所憎恶的, 这一点也体现在摩西五经中:

凡牧羊的, 都被埃及人所憎恶. (创世记 46:34)

因此, 埃及人憎恶属于该教会的一切. 原因在于, 起初埃及甚至也在那些构成代表性古教会的人之列 (1238, 2385节); 但随着时间推移, 他们却弃绝古教会的神, 也就是耶和华或主, 去事奉偶像, 尤其事奉牛犊. 他们还将他们尚属古教会时所获知的古教会的属天和属灵事物的实际代表和有意义的符号变为巫术. 正因如此, 他们当中的次序被颠倒了; 结果, 构成那教会的一切成了他们所憎恶的.