862. "성도들의 진과 사랑하시는 성을 두르매" 앞의 항목에서 말한 바와 같이 새교회의 모든 것 곧 그 진리와 선과 심지어는 주님과 생활에 관한 교리까지도 깨뜰려고 노력하는 것을 뜻한다. 그 이유는 "성도의 진"은 새 예루살렘 교회의 모든 진리와 선을 뜻하기 때문이다. 영적 의미로 "진"(陣)이 그 진리와 선에 관련한 교회의 모든 것을 뜻하는 것은 아래 구절에 나타난다.

"해와 달이 캄캄하며 별들이 빛을 거두도다. 여호와께서 그 군대 앞에서 소리를 발하시고 그 진은 심히 크고 그 명령을 하는 자가 강하니"(요엘 2:10-11)

"내가 내 집을 둘러 진을 처서 적군을 막으리라"(스가랴 9:8)

"너를 대하여 진 친 저희의 뼈를 하나님이 흩으심이라 하나님이 저희를 버리셨음이니라"(시편 34:7)

"야곱이 하나님의 사자를 볼 때 이르기를 이는 하나님의 군대라 그 땅 이름을 미하나임이라 하였더라"(창세기 32:1-2)

그밖의 다른 곳에는 이사야 29:3; 에스겔 1:24; 시편 27:3.

말씀 가운데 "군대"는 교회의 진리와 선 또는 거짓과 악을 뜻하는 것은 447, 826, 833을 보면 알 수 있을 것이요, 진(陣)도 같은 것을 뜻한다.

이스라엘 자손과 그들의 열두 지파는 그 모든 진리와 선으로서의 교회를 뜻하므로 (349-350) 그들을 "여호와의 군대라" 하였던(출애굽기 7:4; 12:41, 51) 것이다.

또 그들이 멈춰 집합할 때는 그들을 "진"이라 하였다.

레위기 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; 민수기 1; 2; 3; 4:5; 5:2-4; 9:17-23; 10:1-10, 11-28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 21:10-15; 33:1-49; 신명기 23:9-14; 아모스 4:10

이상으로 "성도의 진과 사랑하시는 성을 두르매"는 그들이 새 예루살렘이 되는 새교회의 모든 진리와 선을 심지어는 주님과 그 생활에 관한 교리까지도 깨뜰려고 노력하는 것을 뜻하는 것이 분명하다. 누가복음의 아래 구절에도 같은 것을 뜻한다.

"너희가 예루살렘이 군대들에게 에워싸이는 것을 보거든 그 멸망이 가까운 줄을 알라 예루살렘이 이방인의 때가 차기까지 이방인들에게 밟히리라"(누가복음 21:20, 24)

이것은 교회의 종말인 말세에 관한 것이다. "예루살렘"은 여기서는 교회를 뜻한다. 곡과 마곡 곧 내적 예배를 떠난 외적 예배 안에 있는 사람들이 그때 교회를 침범하여 교회를 없애려 하리라는 것도 에스겔 38:8-9, 11-12, 15-16; 39:2에 그리고 그 다음 주님으로 말미암은 교회가 있을 것도 에스겔 39:17-29에 언급되어 있다.

4570. 'But indeed Israel will be your name' means the nature of the internal natural, or the nature of the spiritual aspect of it, represented by 'Israel'; 'and He called his name Israel' means the internal Natural or the celestial-spiritual aspect of the Natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' as the essential nature, dealt with just above in 4568, and from the meaning of 'Israel' as the internal aspect of the Lord's natural and also the celestial-spiritual aspect of the Natural. No one can know why Jacob was called Israel unless he knows what the internal natural is and what the external natural is, and in addition what the celestial-spiritual aspect of the natural is. These matters have in actual fact been explained already, when Jacob was named Israel by the angel; but because they are the kind of things about which people know little, if anything, they need to be explained again.

[2] Two quite distinct and separate degrees exist in man - the rational and the natural. The rational constitutes the internal man and the natural the external; but the natural, like the rational also, has an external aspect of its own and an internal one. The external aspect of the natural is composed of the physical senses and of the impressions received from the world through these senses immediately. By means of his sensory impressions a person is in touch with things belonging to the world and to the body; and people who are confined solely to this natural are called sensory-minded because their thought goes scarcely at all beyond sensory experience. But the internal part of the natural is made up of ideas inferred - by the use of analysis and analogies - from what is in the external, even though it draws on and derives its ideas from sensory impressions. So the natural is in touch through the senses with things belonging to the world and to the body, and through ideas, arrived at by the use of analogy and analysis, with the rational, thus with things belonging to the spiritual world. Such is the composition of the natural. There is another part that exists between and has links with both of them - with the external aspect and with the internal - and so is in touch through the external with things in the natural world, and through the internal with those in the spiritual world. This external natural is represented specifically by 'Jacob', and the internal natural by 'Israel'. The situation is similar with the rational; that is to say, there is an external aspect and an internal, and a further one between the two. But this, in the Lord's Divine mercy, is to be discussed where Joseph is the subject, for 'Joseph' represents the external aspect of the rational.

[3] What the celestial-spiritual is however has been stated several times already - that essentially the celestial is good and the spiritual truth, so that the celestial-spiritual is that which is good resulting from truth. Now because the Lord's Church is both external and internal, and internal features of the Church had to be represented by the descendants of Jacob through things of an external nature, Jacob could not therefore be called Jacob any longer, but was called Israel - see what has been introduced already about these matters in 4286, 4292. Further to this it should be recognized that the terms celestial and spiritual are used both of the rational and of the natural. Celestial is used when people receive good, and spiritual when they receive truth from the Lord; for the good which flows from the Lord into heaven is called celestial, and the truth is called spiritual. In the highest sense the naming of Jacob as Israel means that the Lord progressed towards more interior aspects and made the Natural within Him Divine, both the external aspect of it and the internal. For in the highest sense that which is represented is the Natural itself.