7520. “让摩西向天撒去” 表这些虚假将被展示给天堂居民. 这从 “灰” 和 “向天撒去” 的含义清楚可知: “灰” 是指虚假, 如下文所述; “向天撒去” 是指展示给天堂居民. “撒” 表示展示, 这是显而易见的, 因为通过这种行为, 某种事物就变得可见. “天” 在内义上表示天使天堂. 至于这些话表示什么, 这一点从刚才所述 (参看7519节) 明显看出来, 即: 通过 “摩西” 所代表的从神来的真理, 那些进行侵扰之人的恶欲的虚假被展示并显明给天堂. 这使得天堂同在, 并由于天堂的同在, “起脓疱的疮” 所表示的恶人当中的那类事物就会显明. “灰或炉灰” 表示虚假, 这一点从所提到的另一种 “灰” 得以证实, 因为这些灰有类似的源头, 因而具有与灰或炉灰类似的含义 (如以赛亚书 44:15, 20; 58:5; 耶利米书 6:26; 以西结书 27:30; 28:18; 约拿书 3:6; 诗篇 102:9; 约伯记 2:8; 30:19).

Ships were used in the ancient world -- as they generally are now -- to carry freight from nation to nation for trade. The various valuable items in the cargo represent desires for specific good things and individual ideas about how to accomplish good things. The ships, then, represent containers for those good desires and true ideas -- they represent doctrinal systems, large collections of good desires and true thoughts woven into a whole and working as one. For instance, if we believe that we need to turn to the Bible to learn about right and wrong, need to compel ourselves to do what's right even if we don't want to, and need to trust that the Lord will help us come to love doing what's right, that would be a doctrinal system -- a bunch of ideas and desires for good all working together. Specific ideas -- we should read the Bible, we should pray, we can trust that the Lord is helping us -- are like cargo that is carried along by that larger doctrine.