Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Reference: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

2726. “亚伯拉罕在非利士人的地寄居了多日” 表主将取自对人类认知的记忆知识的很多事物与信之教义联结起来. 这从 “寄居”, “非利士人的地”, “日” 的含义和 “亚伯拉罕” 的代表物清楚可知: “寄居” 是指给予教导 (参看1463, 2025节); “亚伯拉罕” 是指主 (参看1965, 1989, 2011, 2501节); “非利士人的地” 或非利士是指对认知的记忆知识 (参看1197, 1198节); “日” 是指所论述的事物的状态 (参看23, 487, 488, 493, 893节). 由于此处论述的是出于记忆事物与理性概念的认知, 并且经上说 “多日”, 故它表示相对来说 “很多事物”. 从22节至此, 所论述的主题一直是添加到信之教义上的基于人的记忆知识的理性概念, 这从所给出的解读明显看出来; 本节则对它们形成结论. 至于这个主题本身, 由于它本就很深奥, 并且我们在26章还会对它予以大量说明, 故我们将进一步的解释推迟到那一章

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