1232. “亚兰” 表对良善的认知. 这可从前面所述, 以及圣言推知, 如以西结书:

亚兰人因你的货品繁多, 就作你的客商; 他们用绿宝石, 紫色布, 绣货, 细麻布, 珊瑚, 红宝石兑换你的货物. (以西结书 27:16)

这论及推罗, 或拥有认知. “货品, 绿宝石, 紫色布, 绣货, 细麻布, 珊瑚, 红宝石” 在此无非表对良善的认知. 何西阿书:

从前雅各逃到亚兰的田野, 以色列为得妻服侍人, 为得妻与人放羊. 耶和华借先知领以色列从埃及上来, 以色列也藉先知而得保存. 以法莲大大惹动主怒. (何西阿书 12:12-14)

此处 “雅各” 表外在教会, “以色列” 表内在属灵教会. “亚兰” 表对良善的认知, “埃及” 表败坏的知识, “以法莲” 表败坏的聪明才智. 在此上下文中, 这些所表示的意思无法从字义看出来, 只能通过内义推知, 这些名字的内义表教会的真实事物, 如前所述. 以赛亚书:

看哪, 大马士革已被废弃, 不再为城, 必变作废墟. 以法莲不再有保障, 大马士革不再有国权; 亚兰所剩下的, 必像以色列人的荣耀. (以赛亚书 17:1, 3)

“亚兰所剩下的” 在此表对良善的认知, 它们被称为 “以色列的荣耀”. “亚兰” 或叙利亚在反面意义上表对已败坏的良善的认知. 一个词具有 (好与坏) 两方面的意义, 这在圣言中是常有的事 (以赛亚书 7:4-6; 9:11-12; 申命记 26:5).

6304. 'And will bring you back to the land of your fathers' means to the state of both Ancient Churches. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, dealt with in 566, 661, 1066, 1067, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355, 4575, 4447, 5577; and from the meaning of 'fathers' as those who belonged to the Ancient Church and the Most Ancient Church, dealt with in 6075. To the state of both Ancient Churches is said to be meant because the sons of Israel and their descendants, like members of the Ancient Churches, were to represent in specific detail the Lord's celestial and spiritual kingdom. That representation was actually established - among the Jewish nation a representation of the celestial kingdom, and among the Israelite people a representation of the spiritual kingdom. But with that generation nothing of the Church or of the Lord's kingdom could be established, only what was a mere representation, for they wished to see and acknowledge in representatives only what was external, and nothing at all internal.

[2] However, so that the overall representation might be effected, and through it some communication with heaven might exist, and through heaven with the Lord, they were restricted to externals; and at that time the Lord saw to it that communication might take place through external representation alone devoid of any internal. This was the state to which Jacob's descendants could be 'brought back'. Yet inwardly, external representatives among those descendants concealed Divine matters, in the highest sense those which had regard to the Lord's Divine Human, and in the relative sense those which had regard to the Lord's kingdom in heaven and to the Church. This state of both Ancient Churches is what is meant by the promise that God will bring them back to the land of their fathers.