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])

4816. “转身去了一个亚杜兰人那里” 表转向虚假. 这从 “转身” 和 “人” 的含义清楚可知: “转身” 是指离开去行悖逆的事, 因为 “转身” 和 “下去” 一样, 论及远离良善, 转向邪恶, 远离真理, 转向虚假; “人” 是指拥有聪明的人, 抽象意义上是指真理, 因为真正的聪明从真理形成 (265, 749, 1007, 3134, 3309节), 但在反面意义上是指没有聪明的人, 因而是指虚假. 这种虚假就由 “亚杜兰人” 来代表, 因为亚杜兰在犹大地业的边界 (约书亚记 15:35), 因而表示出自良善的真理; 如在弥迦书:

玛利沙的居民哪, 我必使那夺取你的来到你这里; 以色列的荣耀必到亚杜兰. (弥迦书 1:15)

不过, 在圣言中, 绝大多数事物都有一个反面意义, 亚杜兰也不例外; 它在反面意义上表示出自邪恶的虚假. 绝大多数事物之所以都有一个反面意义, 是因为在迦南地成为雅各儿子们的地业之前, 它被表示虚假与邪恶的民族占据; 后来当雅各的儿子陷入相反的境地时, 也是如此; 因为地照着居于其上居民的性质具有和这些居民一样的代表.