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])

2173. “撒拉” 在此是指主的真理. 这从 “撒拉” 的代表清楚可知, “撒拉” 是指与良善结合的智性真理, 在此是指理性真理, 原因和上述亚伯拉罕的一样. 关于 “撒拉” 代表真理, 可参看前文 (1468, 1901, 2063, 2065节) . 在圣言的历史部分, 良善与真理只能由婚姻来代表, 因为这是它们真实的情形. 属天事物和属灵事物之间存在一个神圣婚姻, 或可说, 爱的事物和信的事物之间存在一个神圣婚姻, 也可说, 意愿的事物和认知的事物之间存在一个神圣婚姻. 意愿的事物是良善的形式, 认知的事物是真理的形式. 主在天上的国度和地上的国度 (即教会) 里面就有这样的婚姻; 每个人及其每一个事物, 甚至最个体的部分里面也有这样的婚姻. 凡没有这种婚姻的, 就没有任何生命可言. 事实上, 这种婚姻通过神圣婚姻而存在于整个自然界及其一切细节 (尽管是以不同的形状和形式出现) 中. 否则, 没有任何事物能在那里持续存在下去. 由于一切事物里面都有这样的婚姻, 故先知书, 尤其以赛亚书以双重表述描述一切事物: 一种表述涉及属天事物或良善, 另一种表述涉及属灵事物或真理 (参看683, 793, 801节). 一切事物里面都有一个婚姻的形像 (参看718, 747, 917, 1432节). 这解释了为何 “亚伯拉罕” 代表主的良善, “撒拉” 代表主的真理.