9930. “你要用纯金作一面牌” 表从主的神性良善所获得的光照. 这从 “一面牌” 和 “金” 的含义清楚可知:

“一面牌” 是指光照;

“金” 是指爱之良善, 在此是指主的神性良善, 因为它上面刻着 “归耶和华为圣”.

“金” 表示爱之良善 (参看113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 8932, 9490, 9510, 9874, 9881节).

“牌” 表示光照是由于它的光辉, 因为它从亚伦额上的金子发光, 一切光辉都表示诸如天堂中从显为太阳的主那里发出的光照. 天堂里的光照就是源于从显为太阳的主发出的神性真理的智慧和聪明; 因为这真理光照他们的内层. 他们的内层对应于人心智的理解力部分, 当此人对教会和天堂的真理一种觉知时, 这理解力部分就被主光照; 理解力是接受的主体; 因为没有一个主体, 就没有接受.

“牌” 之所以表示从主的神性良善所获得的光照, 是因为它上面刻着:

“归耶和华为圣”, 它被系在冠冕的前面, 亚伦的额上. 来自耶和华的 “圣” 是指从主的神性良善发出的神性真理 (6788, 8302, 8330, 9229, 9680, 9820节). 为了可以代表产生聪明和智慧的光芒或光照, 这面牌子被系在冠冕的前面.

“牌” 因表示从主的神性良善所获得的光照, 故还被称为 “圣冠上的牌”, 以及 “圣冠”; 因为一个冠冕就是神性良善的一个代表,

“圣” 是指从这良善发出的神性真理, 如前所述. 它被称为 “圣冠上的牌”, 这一点明显可见于出埃及记后面的经文:

最后他们用纯金作圣冠上的牌, 在上面按刻印章之法, 刻着归耶和华为圣.(出埃及记 39:30)

它还被称为 “圣冠”, 这一点明显可见于出埃及记的另一处经文:

把冠冕戴在他头上, 将圣冠加在冠冕上.(出埃及记 29:6)

利未记:

把冠冕戴在他头上, 在冠冕的前面钉上金牌, 就是圣冠.(利未记 8:9)

冠冕代表神性真理从中发出的神性良善, 这一点从王冠明显看出来; 因为王代表神性真理方面的主 (参看2015, 2069, 3009, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148节); 这就是为何他们将冠冕戴在头上, 将杖拿在手中; 因为冠冕代表出于神性良善的治理, 杖代表出于神性真理的治理.

“冠冕” 具有这种含义, 这一点从下列经文明显看出来, 诗篇:

我要叫大卫的角长起来; 我为我的受膏者预备一盏灯. 我要使祂的仇敌披上羞耻, 但祂的冠冕要在祂自己身上兴旺.(诗篇 132:17, 18)

“大卫” 在此是指主 (1888节),

“受膏者” 也是指主 (3008, 3009节); 祂的 “角” 是指能力 (2832, 9081节);

“灯” 是指神性真理, 就是聪明的源头 (9548, 9783节);

“冠冕” 是指神性真理, 就是智慧的源头, 以及祂治理的主要动机. 经上之所以说表示智慧的祂的冠冕要兴旺, 是因为就人身而言, 祂通过与地狱争战并得胜而在世上获得智慧 (8273, 9528节的末尾节), 地狱则是将披上羞耻的祂的仇敌.

又:

你恼怒你的受膏者, 将祂的冠冕判罚于地.(诗篇 89:38, 39)

此处 “受膏者” 也表示主;

“恼怒” 表示当祂与地狱争战时所存在的一种试探的状态;

“恼怒” 和 “判罚” 描述了那时或那种状态下的一种悲伤 (试探的最后阶段就像判罚), 如主在十字架上最后的哀号, 说祂被离弃了. 因为十字架是祂最后的试探, 或与地狱的争战; 这最后的试探之后, 祂就披上神性良善, 以这种方式将祂的神性人身与祂里面的神性本身合一.

以赛亚书:

到那日, 万军之耶和华必作祂余剩之民的荣冠华冕.(以赛亚书 28:5)

“荣冠” 表示智慧, 就是对来自神的良善的一种洞察;

“华冕” 表示聪明, 就是对来自这良善的真理的一种理解; 本节经文论及民中的神性事物;

“民” 在此表示教会, 因为他们在教会所在之地.

同一先知书:

我因锡安必不静默, 为耶路撒冷必不休息, 直到她的公义如光辉发出, 她的救恩如灯燃烧. 你在耶和华的手中要作为华冠, 在你神的手上必作为王冕.(以赛亚书 62:1, 3)

“锡安” 和 “耶路撒冷” 表示教会,

“锡安” 表示属天教会,

“耶路撒冷” 表示从它延伸而来的属灵教会;

“华冠” 是指智慧, 就是对良善的一种洞察;

“王冕” 是指聪明, 就是对真理的一种理解. 由于 “冠” 表示智慧, 或对良善的洞察, 故经上说它要在 “耶和华的手中”; 由于 “冕” 表示聪明, 或对真理的一种理解, 故经上说它要 “在神的手上”. 因为当论述的主题是良善时, 经上就用 “耶和华” 这个名; 当论述的主题是真理时, 经上就用 “神” 这个名 (2586, 2769, 6905节).

耶利米书:

你要对君王和太后说, 你们当放低自己, 坐在下边. 因你们的头饰, 就是你们华美的冠冕, 已经脱下来了.(耶利米书 13:18)

“华美的冠冕” 表示智慧, 就是对源于神性真理的良善的一种洞察; 因为 “华美” 是指教会的神性真理 (9815节). 同一先知书:

我们心中的快乐止息, 我们的舞蹈变为哀悼. 我们头上的冠冕落下.(耶利米哀歌 5:15, 16)

“头上的冠冕” 表示那些属于教会的人从神性真理所获得的智慧, 这智慧将他们置于在其他人民之上, 赋予他们一种权威.

以西结书:

我也将珠宝戴在你鼻子上, 将耳环戴在你耳朵上, 将华美的冠冕戴在你头上.(以西结书 16:12)

此处论述的主题是教会的建立.

“戴在鼻子上的珠宝” 表示对良善的觉知;

“戴在耳朵上的耳环” 表示对真理的觉知, 以及顺从;

“戴在头上的冠冕” 是指由这种觉知产生的智慧. 约伯记:

他从我身上剥去我的荣耀, 摘去我头上的冠冕.(约伯记 19:9)

“冠冕” 表示聪明, 就是对神性真理的一种理解 (9429节);

“头上的冠冕” 表示由此产生的智慧.

启示录:

我看见二十四位长老坐在宝座上, 身穿白衣, 头上戴着金冠冕. 他们就俯伏在坐宝座的面前, 敬拜那活到世世代代的, 又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前.(启示录 4:4, 10)

“二十四位长老” 表示所有处于真理所产生的良善之人, 抽象意义上表示由真理所产生的一切良善 (6524, 9404节);

“宝座” 是指从神来的真理 (5313, 6397, 8625, 9039节);

“他们头上的金冠冕” 是从神所获得的智慧的代表, 因为它是从神那里获得的, 所以他们将他们的冠冕放在那坐宝座的面前.

由于智慧的良善是通过试探的争战获得的, 而在试探的争战中, 进行争战的是信之真理, 所以那些与邪恶和虚假争战, 并得胜的人得到冠冕的赏赐. 也正因如此, 殉道的冠冕是主所规定作为战胜邪恶标志的象征.

“冠冕” 是战胜邪恶的赏赐, 因而表示智慧的良善, 因为这些是赏赐, 这一点也从启示录清楚看出来:

我就观看, 见有一匹白马; 骑在马上的拿着弓, 并有冠冕赐给他. 他便出来, 胜了又要胜.(启示录 6:2)

“白马和骑在马上的” 表示圣言方面的主 (2760-2762节);

“弓” 是指用来进行争战的真理的教义 (2686, 2709节). 由此明显可知, 由于所论述的主题是主, 所以 “冠冕” 表示神性良善, 这就是胜利的赏赐.

另一处:

我又观看, 见有一片白云, 云上坐着一位好像人子, 头上戴着金冠冕, 手里拿着快镰刀.(启示录 14:14)

“白云” 表示圣言的字义 (4060, 4391, 5922, 6343节的末尾,6752, 8781节);

“人子” 表示从主发出的神性真理 (9807节);

“金冠冕” 表示神性真理所源于的神性良善;

“快镰刀” 表示对邪恶和虚假的驱散. 又:

你务要至死忠心, 我就赐给你那生命的冠冕.(启示录 2:10)

又:

看哪, 我必快来, 你要持守你所有的, 免得人夺去你的冠冕.(启示录 3:11)

“冠冕” 表示由真理所产生的良善, 因而表示智慧, 因为这是对由信之真理所产生的爱之良善的洞察. 由此可见 “冠冕” 表示什么,

“圣冠”, 就是上面刻着 “归耶和华为圣” 的金牌由此表示什么.

4434. 'And his soul clung to Dinah, [the daughter of Jacob]' means the inclination to be joined to it. This is clear from the meaning of 'the soul clinging' as an inclination. It is evident that an inclination to be joined is meant because things connected with conjugial love imply in the internal sense the joining together of truth and good, and of good and truth. The reason why things connected with conjugial love imply in the internal sense that spiritual joining together is that conjugial love has its origin in the marriage of truth and good and of good and truth, see 2618, 2727-2729, 2737, 2803, 3132. Consequently the adulteration of good is meant by an act of adultery, and the falsification of truth by an act of whoredom described in the Word, 2466, 2729, 2750, 3399. From these considerations it may be seen that all the details mentioned in this chapter concerning Shechem and Dinah mean nothing else in the internal sense than the joining of truth, represented by 'Shechem', to the affection for truth, represented by 'Dinah', so that the words 'his soul clung to Dinah' mean the inclination to be joined to this affection.

[2] Since the subject in the whole of this chapter is Shechem's love towards Dinah and how he sought to make her his wife, and since things connected with conjugial love mean spiritual joining together, let it now be established from the Word that marriages and things that have a connection with marriages do not imply anything else: In John,

Let us be glad and exult, and let us give glory to Him, for the time of the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Wife has made herself ready. Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Revelation 19:7, 9.

In the same book,

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. One of the seven angels spoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. He carried me away in the spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. Revelation 21:2, 9-10.

It is quite evident that betrothal and marriage in these places mean nothing other than the joining of the Lord to the Church, which is effected by means of truth and good. For 'the holy city' and 'the new Jerusalem' mean nothing other than the Church - 'city' meaning the truth of the Church, see 402, 2268, 2449, 2451, 2712, 2943, 3216, and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual Church, 402, 2117, 3654.

[3] In Malachi,

Judah has acted faithlessly, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, for he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Jehovah was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted faithlessly. Malachi 2:11, 14-15.

'Loving and marrying the daughter of a foreign god' means joining oneself to falsity instead of truth, which is 'the wife of one's youth'.

[4] In Ezekiel,

You took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and sacrificed them so as to be devoured. Was the matter of your acts of whoredom a small one? You are your mother's daughter who loathes her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons. Ezekiel 16:20, 45.

This refers to the abominations of Jerusalem which, because they were the product of evils and falsities, are described in this chapter by means of the kind of things that are the direct opposite of marriages, that is to say, acts of adultery and of whoredom. 'The husbands' whom they loathed are goods, 'the sons' truths, and 'the daughters' the affections for these.

[5] In Isaiah,

Sing, O barren one that did not bear; resound with singing and cry out for joy, O one that has not been in travail, for the sons of her that is desolate will be more than the sons of her that is married. You will not remember any more the reproach of your widowhood, for your Maker is your Husband, ¹ Jehovah Zebaoth is His name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth He is called. For Jehovah has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth when she is put away, said your God. All your sons are taught by Jehovah, and much is the peace of your sons. Isaiah 54:1, 4-6, 13.

Since 'a marriage' means the joining together of truth and good and of good and truth, one may see what is meant by husband and wife, sons and daughters, widows, women who have been put away, and by bearing, giving birth, being desolate, and being barren; for all these expressions have some connection with marriage. The meaning in the spiritual sense of each of these expressions has been shown many times in the explanatory sections.

[6] In the same prophet,

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest. You will no more be called Deserted, but your land will be named Married, for Jehovah will take His pleasure in you, and your land will be married. Forasmuch as a young man will marry a virgin, your sons will marry you; and there will be the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, your God will rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:1, 4-5.

Anyone unacquainted with the internal sense of the Word may suppose that such imagery in the Word is simply an employment of comparisons like many of those used in everyday speech, and that this is the reason why the Church is compared to a daughter, a virgin, and a wife, and so why matters of faith and charity are compared to things which have some connection with marriage. But in the Word everything is representative of that which is spiritual or celestial, and it is a real correspondence; for the Word has come down from heaven, and because it has come down from there it is in origin something Divinely celestial and spiritual, to which everything in the sense of the letter corresponds. Consequently things connected with the heavenly marriage, which is good and truth joined together, pass into those that correspond to them, and so into those which have some connection with marriages on earth.

[7] This also explains why the Lord likened the kingdom of heaven - that is, His kingdom in heaven and His kingdom on earth, which is the Church - to a certain king, who arranged a wedding for his son and invited many to it, Matthew 22:2 and following verses, and also to ten virgins who took lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom, Matthew 25:1 and following verses. The Lord also referred to those who belong to the Church as 'the sons of the wedding',

Jesus said, Can the sons of the wedding mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. Matthew 9:15.

[8] For the same reasons the affection for good and the affection for truth are called 'the joy and gladness of a bridegroom and bride', for heavenly joy is the product of those affections and resides within them, as in Isaiah,

Your sons will marry you; and there will be the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Jehovah your God will rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:5.

In Jeremiah,

The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those that say, Give thanks ² to Jehovah, for Jehovah is good. Jeremiah 33:11.

In the same prophet,

I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will turn into a waste. Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9; 25:10.

And in John,

The light of a lamp will not shine in Babylon any more, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will not be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:23.

[9] Since marriages on earth correspond through truly conjugial love to the heavenly marriage which is that of good and truth, the laws laid down in the Word concerning betrothals and marriages correspond completely to the spiritual laws of the heavenly marriage, such as the law that men were to marry one wife only, Mark 10:2-8; Luke 16:18; for in the case of the heavenly marriage the situation is that no good can be joined to any but its own truth, or truth to any but its own good. If joined to any truth other than its own, good could not possibly be held together but would be torn apart and so would perish. In the spiritual Church 'wife' (uxor) represents good and 'man' (vir) represents truth, but in the celestial Church 'husband' (maritus) represents good and 'wife' (uxor) truth. Furthermore - and this is an arcanum - they not only represent those things but also in actual fact correspond to them.

[10] The laws also concerning marriages which have been laid down in the Old Testament have in a similar way a correspondence with the laws of the heavenly marriage, such as those in Exodus 21:7-11; 22:15-16, 17; 34:16; Numbers 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 22:28-29; and also the laws about the forbidden degrees of affinity, Leviticus 18:6-20. In the Lord's Divine mercy these will be dealt with individually in some other place. The fact that the degrees and laws of marriages have their origin in the laws of truth and good which belong to the heavenly marriage and with which they correlate is evident in Ezekiel,

The priests the Levites shall not take as wives for themselves a widow or a woman that has been put away, but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel; only a widow who is the widow of a priest may they take. Ezekiel 44:22.

This refers to the holy city, the new Jerusalem, and to the heavenly Canaan which clearly mean the Lord's kingdom and His Church. Consequently 'the Levites' do not mean Levites, nor do 'a widow and a woman who has been put away' mean a widow and one put away, but the kind of things they correspond to.

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