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])

3584. “凡咒诅你的, 愿他受咒诅” 表凡使自己分离的, 必被分离; “为你祝福的, 愿他蒙福” 表凡使自己结合的, 必被结合. 这从 “受咒诅” 和 “蒙福” 的含义清楚可知: “受咒诅” 是指被分离; “蒙福” 是指被结合 (3504, 3514, 3530, 3565节). 这些话论及真理: 那些 “咒诅的” 表示与真理分离的虚假; 那些 “祝福的” 表与所有其它真理联结的真理. 因为真理与良善的情形是这样: 它们一起形成一个社群, 最终可以说构成一个城市, 也以这样的方式联结. 这一切源于天堂的形式, 在这个形式中, 众天使照着存在于良善与真理之间的血亲关系和姻亲关系来定位. 所有天使都以这种方式一起构成一个国度或一个城市. 真理与良善正是通过天堂的形式流入到人身上, 并在他里面被整理成类似形式, 所有这一切唯独由主实现. 不过, 此中情形从巨人, 就天堂, 与人里面一切事物的对应关系看得更清楚. 蒙主的神圣怜悯, 这种对应关系将章节末尾予以描述. 由此明显可知以撒向雅各宣布, 却意指以扫的祝福包含什么; 也就是说, 良善经由真理增多的繁殖, 以及真理的进一步繁殖.