10253. “五百舍客勒” 表完全或完整之物. 这从 “五百” 的含义清楚可知, “五百” 是指完全或完整之物. “五百” 之所以具有这种含义, 是因为这个数字是五两次乘以十, 或五乘以一百的乘积; 而 “五” 表示大量, “十” 和 “一百” 同样表示大量; 因此, “五百” 表示完全或完整之物. “五” 表示大量 (参看5708, 5956, 9102节); “十” 也是 (参看3107, 4638节); “一百” 同样如此 (参看4400, 6582, 6594节); 在圣言中, 一切数字皆表示真实事物 (参看9488节提到的地方); 复合数具有和通过相乘得到它们的简单数一样的含义 (5291, 5335, 5708, 7973节).

数字表示属灵的真实事物, 这一点在以西结书是非常清楚的, 以西结书 40-48章通过标明尺寸的数字测量并描述了神的房子和它里外的一切, 以及新地; 在那里, “新地” 表示教会, “神的房子” (或译为神殿) 表示它的神圣. 这在约翰所写的启示录中也是如此, 那里也通过标明尺寸的数字来描述新耶路撒冷, 而新耶路撒冷同样表示一个新教会. 如果数字并非表示属灵的真实事物, 那么所有这些测量尺寸都是毫无意义的.

“五百” 表示从一端到另一端的整体, 因而表示完全或完整之物. 这一点从以西结书的这些章节清楚看出来:

他在房子或殿外量四围, 量东面五百竿; 量北面五百竿; 量南面五百竿; 量五百西面竿; 将圣的与俗的分别出来. . (以西结书 42:15-20)

从这些话明显可知, “五百” 表示完整的整体, 或从一端到另一端皆神圣的一切事物, 因而表示完全或完整之物; 因为经上说, 城墙 (根据对它的长和宽的描述, 呈正方形) 将圣的与俗的分别出来.

“五百” 表示大量, 而这个数量的十分之一, 或 “五十” 表示些许. 这一点从主在路加福音中对西门所说的话明显看出来:

耶稣说, 有一个债主有两个欠债的, 一个欠五百便士, 一个欠五十便士. 因为他们无力偿还, 债主就开恩免了他们两个人的债. 这两个人哪一个更爱他呢? 西门回答说, 是那多得恩免的人. 耶稣说, 她许多的罪都赦免了, 因为她的爱多; 但那赦免少的, 他的爱就少. (路加福音 7:41至末尾)

主之所以用这些数字, 是因为它们表示大量和些许; 因为祂出于神性, 因而通过根据对应而具有灵义的词语来说话. 这在其它一切地方也一样, 如当祂论到童女时, 说她们有十个, 五个是聪明的, 五个是愚拙的. 祂之所以说 “十个”, 是因为这个数字表示所有, 也就是所有属于教会的人; 说 “五个”, 是因为这个数字表示些许 (4637, 4638节).

9055. 'Burning for burning' means if anything of love and affection present in the inward part of the will [is injured]. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning' as injuring or wiping out the good of love. The reason for saying 'in the will' is that the good of love belongs to the will, whereas the truth of faith belongs to the understanding, 9050, 9051. And the reason for saying 'the inward part' of the will is that 'wound', dealt with below, means an injuring or the wiping out of an aspect of love present in the outward part of the will. Here, as in the previous paragraphs, injuries done both in the internal man and in the external man are dealt with. For injuring the inner part of the understanding is meant by 'eye' and injuring the outer part by 'tooth', and injuring the power of truth in the internal man is meant by 'hand' and injuring the power in the external man by 'foot', as has been shown; thus injuring the will in the internal man is meant by 'burning' and injuring the will in the external man by 'wound'.

[2] A person has inward and outward parts of his will, just as he has inward and outward parts of his understanding, which are dealt with in 9050, 9051. The inward part of his will resides where the inward part of his understanding resides, and the outward part of his will resides where the outward part of his understanding resides. They must be joined together; for where truth resides, so does good, and where good resides, so does truth. Truth without good is not truth, and good without truth is not good. For good is the essential being (esse) of truth, and truth is the manifestation (existere) of good; and the situation with a person's understanding and his will is the same, in that the understanding is dedicated to receiving truth and the will to receiving good. From this it is evident that when a person is being regenerated the Lord gives him a new understanding through the truths of faith, and a new will through the good of charity, and that both must be present and also joined together if the person is to be regenerate.

[3] The reason why 'burning' means injuring the good of love is that love is meant by 'fire', 934, 2446, 4906, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324 (end), 7575, 7852; and what injures the good of love is evil desire blazing up from self-love. For this desire is called 'burning', 1297, 5215. Evil desire is also meant by 'branding' in Isaiah,

Instead of fragrance there will be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a falling apart, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. Isaiah 3:24.

This refers to 'the daughter of Zion', by which the celestial Church, that is, the Church governed by love to the Lord, is meant, 2362, 6729. 'Branding' here is evil desire stemming from self-love.

[4] Anyone who does not know that there is an internal sense in the Word thinks that the proud adornments worn by the daughters of Zion as described in verses 16-24 of that chapter mean such adornments, and that because of such things among the daughters of Zion the Jewish and Israelite people were to be punished and - as said in verses 25, 26 - to fall by the sword. But the reality is altogether different from this. The spiritual and celestial beauties of the Church are what are meant by those adornments. It becomes clear to anyone who reads the Word that 'the daughter of Zion' is not used in the Word to mean the daughter of Zion, provided that he turns to and considers those places in the Prophets where Zion and the daughter of Zion are mentioned. From these he will see that the daughter of Zion is the Church.