6419. “女儿啊, 她爬到墙上” 表出去与虚假争战。这从 “女儿” 和 “爬到墙上” 的含义清楚可知: “女儿” 是指教会 (参看2362, 3963节), 在此是指属灵教会, 因为该教会是此处所论述的主题; “爬到墙上” 是指出去与虚假争战, 这从接下来的话明显可知: “弓箭手苦害他, 向他射箭, 仇恨他。约瑟要坐在他弓的力量里”, 以此表示虚假与真理的争战。

经上之所以说 “爬到墙上”, 是因为就内义而言, 所论述的主题是虚假向真理发起的攻击, 以及真理抵挡虚假的保护; 事实上, “约瑟” 所代表的属灵教会不断受到攻击, 但主不断保护它。这解释了为何在圣言中, 属该教会的一切都被比作一座城, 这城有墙、外郭、城门和门闩; 向该城所发起的攻击描述了虚假向真理所发起的攻击。也正因如此, “城” 表示教义事物 (402, 2268, 2449, 2712, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493节), “城墙” 表示用来保卫它的信之真理, 在反面意义上则表示用来摧毁的虚假。“墙” 表示用来保卫的信之真理, 这一点可见于以赛亚书:

我们有坚固的城。耶和华要将救恩定为城墙、为外郭。敞开城门, 使守信的义族得以进入。(以赛亚书 26:1)

又:

你必称你的墙为拯救, 称你的门为赞美。(以赛亚书 60:18)

又:

看哪！我将你铭刻在我上; 你的墙垣常在我面前。(以赛亚书 49:16)

“墙” 表示信之真理。又:

耶路撒冷啊, 我在你城墙上设立守望者, 他们终日终夜必不静默, 不停呼吁耶和华。(以赛亚书 62:6)

此处意思也一样。耶利米书:

万军之耶和华如此说, 我要使你们在城墙外与围困你们的巴比伦王打仗所用的战器转回来。我要用伸出来的手亲自攻击你们。(耶利米书 21:4, 5)

又:

耶和华定意拆毁锡安女子的城墙; 祂使外郭和城墙悲哀; 一同衰败。她的门, 都陷入地内; 主将她的门闩毁坏折断。(耶利米哀歌 2:8, 9)

以西结书:

亚发人和你的军队都在你四围的墙上, 你的塔楼也有歌玛底人。他们将盾牌悬挂在你四围的墙上, 使你的美丽完全。(以西结书 27:11)

这论及推罗, 推罗表示良善与真理的认知或知识。

“城” 和 “城墙” 表示这类事物, 这一点从对约翰所看见的从天而降的圣耶路撒冷的描述非常明显地看出来。从这段描述的每个细节明显可知, 该城表示一个新教会; 它的 “城墙” 表示从主发出的神性真理。启示录对此城的描述如下:

从天而降的圣耶路撒冷有高大的墙, 有十二个门。城墙有十二根基, 根基上有羔羊十二使徒的名字。对我说话的, 要量那城和城门、城墙。城墙, 按着人的尺寸, 就是天使的尺寸, 共有一百四十四肘。墙的构造是碧玉的, 城是精金的, 如同明净的玻璃。城墙的根基是用各样宝石修饰的。(启示录 21:10-19)

“城墙” 是指从主发出的神性真理, 由此表示出于仁之良善的信之真理。这一事实从这段描述中所提到的关于 “城墙” 的每个细节明显看出来, 如: “城墙有十二根基, 根基上有羔羊十二使徒的名字”, 因为 “十二” 表示全部 (参看3272, 3858, 3913节); “城墙” 及其 “根基” 表示信之真理, “十二使徒” 所表相同 (3488, 3858, 6397节); 以及 “城墙共有一百四十四肘”, “一百四十四” 这个数字与 “十二” 所表相同, 即都表示全部, 因为它是十二与十二的乘积。由于这个数字在论及城墙时表示信的全部真理与良善, 故经上补充说 “城墙, 按着人的尺寸, 就是天使的尺寸”; 还有其它细节, 即 “墙的构造是碧玉的, 城墙的根基是用各样宝石修饰的”, 因为 “碧玉” 和 “宝石” 表示信之真理 (114节)。

“墙或城墙” 在反面意义上表示用来毁灭的虚假, 这层含义从以下经文明显看出来:

异象谷有溃乱的日子; 。主万军之耶和华拆毁城墙, 呼声达到山上; 以拦带着箭袋, 还有坐战车的人和马兵; 也有马兵在城门前排列。(以赛亚书 22:5-7)

又:

耶和华使你城墙上的避难堡垒倾倒下陷, 落在地上, 直到尘埃。(以赛亚书 25:12)

耶利米书:

你们要上她的墙, 加以推翻。(耶利米书 5:10)

又:

我必在大马色城墙上使火着起, 烧灭便哈达的宫殿。(耶利米书 49:27)

又:

你们要竖立大旗, 攻击巴比伦的城墙, 加强守望, 派立守望人。(耶利米书 51:12)

以西结书:

他们必破坏推罗的墙垣, 拆毁她的塔楼。我也要刮净她的尘土, 使她成为净光的磐石。(以西结书 26:4)

9327. 'I will send My terror before you' means the terror felt, on account of truths springing from good, by those immersed in evils arising from falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'terror' as the terror felt by those immersed in evils that arise from falsity; and from the meaning of 'the children of Israel', before whom the terror would be sent, as those governed by spiritual good, which is truth springing from good, dealt with in 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833, 7957, 8234, 8805. The nations in the land of Canaan who would feel terror on account of the children of Israel mean evils arising from falsity and falsities arising from evil, see 1413, 1437, 1573, 1574, 1607, 1868, 4517, 6306, 8054, 8317. So it is that 'I will send My terror before you' means the terror felt by those immersed in evils arising from falsity, on account of truths springing from good. The implications of all this are that all power in the spiritual world is provided by truths that spring from good, thus by truths that emanate from the Lord.

[2] This is made perfectly clear by the consideration that the Lord arranges into order all things in heaven and all things in hell, as well as all things in the world, by means of truths coming from Him. For Divine Truth emanating from the Lord is the actual means by which all things are brought into being and by which all things are kept in being. This is incomprehensible to those who think on solely a material level, as those people do who attribute the origin and continued existence of all things to natural forces. These people cannot have any other idea about truths than this, that truths do not possess any power because they are solely objects of thought, and thought is not seen by them to be an essential entity, still less something substantial, ¹ even though they know that thought controls the whole body and causes individual parts to move in exact accord with its own disposition. Nor also do they see that in the whole of creation nothing exists which lacks connection with truth that springs from good. Regarding truth, that it holds all power within it and is a supreme essential entity, see 8200. From all this it is evident that angels possess power which they receive from God's truth that emanates from the Lord, and that this is why they are called 'powers'. As regards the nature of truths that spring from good, that is, of truths coming from the Lord, see my experience involving the arm which corresponds to such truth, spoken of in 4932-4935.

[3] Since all power belongs to truth it follows that no power whatever resides in falsity arising from evil, since it is an absence of truth springing from good, and so is an absence of power. Therefore also those in hell, since all there are steeped in falsities arising from evil, have absolutely no power at all. This being so, thousands of them can be rebuffed, thrown down, and dispelled by a single angel, almost exactly as fluff in the air can be by a puff from the mouth. From this one may see the reason for the terror felt by those steeped in falsities arising from evil on account of truths springing from good. This terror is called 'the terror of God' in Genesis 35:5; Job 13:21; and in Ezekiel,

I will put My terror in the land of the living, when he had been made to lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude. Ezekiel 32:32.

And in Moses,

If you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My judgements, so that you do not do all My commandments, I will inject dismay into their heart, that the sound of a driven leaf may pursue them, and they may flee, like flight from the sword, and they may fall without [anyone] pursuing. Leviticus 26:15, 36.

This describes the terror experienced by those who despise and reject statutes, judgements, and commandments, thus that felt by those who are immersed in evils arising from falsity and in falsities arising from evil. It says that 'the sound of a leaf will pursue them, and they will flee, like flight from the sword'; and the reason why it says this is that 'a leaf' means truth, 885, and 'the sword' truth engaged in conflict against falsity arising from evil, 2799, 6353, 8294. The fact that those people possess absolutely no power at all against truth is meant by 'they will fall without [anyone] pursuing'.

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