9882. “你要在胸牌上作两个金环” 表神性良善的气场, 通过该气场而有一个与天堂更高部分的联结. 这从 “胸牌” 和 “两个金环” 的含义清楚可知:

“胸牌” 是指天堂的一个代表 (参看9879节);

“两个金环” 是指神性良善的气场, 联结通过该气场实现 (9498, 9501节). 它之所以是与天堂更高部分的一个联结, 是因为这就是两个环在胸牌上面部分这一要求所表示的; 事实上, 小链子从这一部分被引到以弗得肩带上的金槽那里.

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.