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])

2728. 正如刚才所说的, 如今很少有人知道何为真正的婚姻之爱, 故现在我们通过已向我透露的事来描述这爱. 婚姻之爱起源于良善与真理的神性婚姻, 因而起源于主自己. 婚姻之爱由此而来, 这一事实人既看不到, 也理解不了. 不过, 它仍能通过流注, 对应和圣言变得清晰起来. 通过流注: 从主流入的善与真的结合好比婚姻, 并被称作婚姻. 通过对应: 当与真理结合的良善向下流入较低领域时, 它会形成心智的结合; 再降至更低领域时, 它便形成一个婚姻. 因此, 心智的结合源于来自主的与真理结合的良善, 该结合便是婚姻之爱本身.