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])

2729. 从以下事实可以看出真正的婚姻之爱由此而来: 没人能享有真正的婚姻之爱, 除非来自主的真之善与善之真存在于他里面; 天上的幸福快乐就在于婚姻真爱; 凡享有婚姻真爱的, 全都进入天堂, 即享有天上的婚姻; 还有, 当天使谈论善与真的结合时, 一种婚姻的代表物就出现在处于较低领域的善灵当中; 而出现在恶灵当中的, 则是一种奸淫的代表物. 正因如此, 在圣言中, 善与真的结合被称作 “婚姻”; 而对良善的玷污和对真理的歪曲则被称作 “奸淫” 和 “淫乱” (参看2466节).