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])

3058. “打水或取水” 表教导, 还表示由教导而来的启示, 如本章下文所述. 其原因在于, 就内义而言, “水” 表信之真理 (2702节); 因此 “打水或取水” 无非是指在信之真理上接受教导, 从而得到启示. 这也是圣言中其它经文的意思, 如以赛亚书:

你们必从救恩的泉源欢然取水. 在那日, 你们要承认耶和华. (以赛亚书 12:3-4)

“取水” 表接受教导, 拥有聪明智慧. 又:

提玛地的居民哪, 拿水来迎口渴的. (以赛亚书 21:14)

“拿水来迎口渴的” 表给予教导. 又:

困苦穷乏人寻求水却没有, 他们因口渴, 舌头干燥. (以赛亚书 41:17)

“寻求水” 的人是指那些渴望真理的教导之人. “却没有” 表示没有人拥有真理. 另外, 在犹太教会, “打水人” 代表那些不断渴望认识真理, 却只是为了认识它们, 而毫不关心它们的用途之人. 这种人就算为最低等的人, 约书亚记中 (9:21, 23, 27) 所提到的基遍人 (即挑水的人) 就代表他们.