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])

9595. “用十幅幔子” 表构成它的一切真理. 这从 “十” 和 “幔子” 的含义清楚可知:

“十” 是指一切 (参看4638节), 因此 “十分之一”, 即一幔子表示足量 (8468, 8540节);

“幔子” 是指属于新理解力的信之内层真理. 因为 “居所” 表示中间或第二层天堂, 它凭其接受发自主的神性良善的神性真理而为天堂, 如前所述 (9594节); 因此, 组成并包裹它的 “幔子” 是指属于新理解力的信之真理. 它们是内层真理, 因为在周围为罩棚而用山羊毛所织的幔子表示外层真理, 它们在本章也有论述.

“幔子” 是指那些在主的属灵国度之人所拥有的信之真理, 这一点从圣言中提到它们的经文明显看出来, 如在以赛亚书:

你这不怀孕, 不生养的啊, 要歌唱! 因为凄凉独居者的儿子比有夫之妇的儿子还多. 要扩张你帐棚之地, 伸展你居所的幔子; 要放长你的绳子. 因为你要向左向右突破, 你的种必得列族为业.(以赛亚书 54:1-3)

这论及即将在外邦人当中建立的教会, 它被称为 “不怀孕, 不生养的”, 因为它缺乏来自圣言的真理 (9325节). 经上之所以说 “她的儿女比有夫之妇的儿女还多”, 是因为它将拥有比已荒凉的前教会更多的真理;

“儿子” 是指真理 (489, 491, 533, 1147, 3373, 3704节).

“扩张帐棚之地” 表示源于爱之良善的敬拜的神圣 (3312, 4391, 4599节);

“, 伸展居所的幔子” 表示源于信之真理的敬拜的神圣.

耶利米书:

全地荒废. 我的帐棚忽然荒废; 我的幔子也顷刻荒废.(耶利米书 4:20)

“荒废的地” 表示教会 (9325节);

“荒废的帐棚” 表示源于爱之良善的敬拜的神圣;

“荒废的幔子” 表示源于信之真理的神圣敬拜.

同一先知书:

我的帐棚荒废, 我的绳索扯断. 我的儿子离我出去, 不在了; 无人再支搭我的帐棚, 挂起我的幔子. 因为牧人已变得愚昧.(耶利米书 10:20, 21)

此处意思也一样. 又:

起来上阿拉伯去, 荒废东方人. 夺去他们的帐棚和羊群, 为自己带走他们的幔子, 一切器皿和骆驼.(耶利米书 49:28, 29)

“阿拉伯 (经上译为基达)” 和 “东方人” 表示那些具有关于良善和真理的认知或知识之人 (3249节);

“夺去帐棚和羊群” 表示夺走教会的内层良善 (8937节);

“带走幔子” 表示夺走教会的内层真理;

“他们的器皿” 表示教会的外层真理 (3068, 3079节);

“骆驼” 表示总体上的记忆知识 (3048, 3071, 3143, 3145节). 哈巴谷书:

我见古珊的帐棚在灾难之下; 米甸的幔子动摇.(哈巴谷书 3:7)

“米甸的幔子” 表示与那些处于简单良善之人同在的真理 (3242, 4756, 4788, 6773, 6775节).

由此明显可知诗篇中的经文是什么意思:

耶和华啊, 你披上荣耀威严; 祂用亮光, 如用衣服遮盖自己; 铺张诸天, 如铺幔子.(诗篇 104:1, 2)

“用亮光, 如用衣服遮盖自己” 表示神性真理.

“光” 表示真理 (参看9548节);

“衣服” 也表示真理 (4545, 4763, 5319, 5954, 9093, 9212, 9216节); 因此,

“铺张诸天, 如铺幔子” 论及新样, 也就是已重生的心智的理解力部分 (参看下面9596节).