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.

3875. 'And she said, Now this time my husband will cling to me' means in the highest sense love and mercy, in the internal sense charity, in the external sense a joining together - spiritual love being meant here. This is clear from the meaning of 'clinging to'. As regards 'clinging' in the external sense, or inner sense nearest to the literal, meaning a joining together, this may be seen without explanation; and as regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning charity, this is evident from the consideration that charity, or what amounts to the same, mutual love, is a spiritual joining together. For mutual love is a joining together of affections belonging to the will and a consequent agreement of thoughts belonging to the understanding, and so is a joining of minds as to both parts. That 'clinging' in the highest sense means love and mercy is evident from this, for when the description 'infinite and eternal' is applied to charity or spiritual love the attribute of mercy is meant, mercy being Divine love directed towards the human race engulfed in such great miseries. For man of himself is nothing but evil, and what is within him, insofar as this has its origin in himself, is altogether from hell. Yet the Lord beholds him with Divine Love, and therefore the raising up of him from the hell in which of himself he dwells and his deliverance from it is called mercy. And because that mercy is an attribute of Divine Love, 'clinging' in the highest sense therefore means both love and mercy.

[2] As regards 'clinging' in the internal sense meaning spiritual love, or what amounts to the same, charity towards the neighbour, this may also be seen from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has clung to Jehovah say, Jehovah surely separates me from being with His people. The sons of the foreigner who cling to Jehovah, to minister to Him and to delight in the name of Jehovah, will be His servants. Isaiah 56:3, 6.

'Clinging to Jehovah' stands for keeping His commandments, which is an act of spiritual love, for no one at heart keeps God's commandments except him in whom good that flows from charity towards the neighbour is present. In Jeremiah,

In those days the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah weeping as they come; and they will seek Jehovah their God. They will ask Zion concerning the way, their faces towards it, [saying,] Come and let us cling to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that is not forgotten. Jeremiah 50:4-5.

'Clinging to Jehovah' in like manner stands for keeping His commandments at heart, that is, doing so from good that flows from charity.

[3] In Zechariah,

Many nations will cling to Jehovah on that day and will be My people. Zechariah 2:11.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and will set them on their own land. And the sojourner will cling to them, and they will join themselves to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14:1.

'The sojourner clinging to them' stands for having a similar allegiance to the law. 'Joining themselves to the house of Jacob' stands for the good that flows from charity, which is present in those meant by 'the house of Jacob'. In Matthew,

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.

Here the celestial form of love is meant by 'loving', the spiritual form by 'clinging to'. Both of these expressions are used because those two forms of love are distinct and separate. Otherwise one expression would have been sufficient.

[4] People who are stirred by spiritual love are therefore called 'the sons of Levi', as in Malachi,

Who can endure the day of His coming, and who will stand when He appears? He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold, and like silver. Malachi 3:2-3.

In the highest sense the Lord is meant by 'Levi' by virtue of Divine love and of mercy towards those in whom spiritual love is present. This may be seen in the same prophet,

That you may know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi, said Jehovah Zebaoth. My covenant with him will be [a covenant] of life and peace. You have turned back from the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law, you have corrupted the covenant of Levi; therefore I have made you despised. Malachi 2:4-5, 8-9.

And because in the highest sense the Lord's Divine Love or His Mercy was meant by 'Levi', and in the internal sense spiritual love, the tribe of Levi was therefore established as the priesthood; for in the internal sense of the Word 'the priesthood' is nothing other than the holiness of love and 'kingship' the holiness of faith, 1728, 2015 (end), 3670.

[5] Because the expression 'cringing to' from which Levi received his name means spiritual love, which is the same as mutual love, the same expression in the original language is used to mean lending and borrowing. ¹ And these two - lending and borrowing - in the Jewish Church represented mutual love, a representation which will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with elsewhere. Mutual love is different from friendship inasmuch as mutual love has a person's good in view, and in directing itself towards that good is directed towards the person in whom good is present. Friendship however has the person in view, which is also mutual love when it looks at that person from the point of view of, that is, on account of, that good. But when it does not look at him from the point of view of good or on account of that good but on account of self which it calls good, friendship is not in that case mutual love but something close to the love of self. And insofar as it is close to this it is opposed to mutual love. In itself mutual love is nothing else than charity towards the neighbour, for in the internal sense 'the neighbour' means nothing else than good, and in the highest sense the Lord because all good originates in Him and He is Good itself, see 2425, 3419. This mutual love or charity towards the neighbour is what is understood by spiritual love and meant by 'Levi'. What is more, in the Word celestial love, and also conjugial love, is expressed in the sense of the letter as 'clinging to', but this is derived from a different expression in the original language from that from which the name Levi is obtained.

[6] This other expression means an even closer joining together, as in the following places: In Moses,

You shall fear Jehovah your God: you shall serve Him and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 10:20.

You shall go after Jehovah your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and hear His voice, and serve Him, and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 13:4.

To love Jehovah your God, to go in all His ways, and to cling to Him. Deuteronomy 11:22.

To love Jehovah your God, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him, for He is your life. Deuteronomy 30:20.

In Joshua,

Take good care to carry out the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Joshua 22:5.

In the second Book of Kings,

King Hezekiah trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel. He clung to Jehovah; he did not turn back from going after Him, and he kept His commandments which

Jehovah had commanded Moses. 2 Kings 18:5-6.

In Jeremiah,

As a waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me, to be for Me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory; but they were not obedient. Jeremiah 13:11.

[7] The fact that conjugial love as well is expressed by 'clinging to' is evident from the following,

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cling to his wife, and they will be one flesh. Genesis 2:24.

On account of your hardness of heart Moses wrote this commandment, but from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man (homo) will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two will be one flesh. What therefore God has joined together man (homo) must not put asunder. Mark 10:5-9; Matthew 19:5.

The soul of Shechem clung to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He loved the girl, and spoke to the girl's heart. Genesis 34:3.

Solomon loved many foreign women. Solomon clung to these in love. 1 Kings 11:1-2.

These quotations show then that 'clinging to' is an expression descriptive of love which was adopted in ancient times by Churches in which meaningful signs were prominent, and that it means nothing else in the internal sense than a spiritual joining together, which is charity and love.

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