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])

7205. “我要用伸出来的膀臂救赎你们” 表凭神性能力从地狱领出来. 这从 “救赎” 和 “伸出来的膀臂” 的含义清楚可知: “救赎” 是指从地狱领出来, 因为 “救赎” 论及奴役, 邪恶和死亡, 人们从这些东西中得以释放, 好叫他们从地狱得以释放, 主就其神性人身而言, 被称为 “救赎主” (参看6281节); “伸出来的膀臂” 是指神性能力. “膀臂” 表示能力 (参看478, 4931, 4932, 4934, 4935节), 但 “伸出来的膀臂” 之所以表示全能或神性能力, 是因为在天堂, 当一个膀臂看上去伸出来时, 它代表来自神性的能力. 然而, 当它没有伸出来, 只是弯曲时, 所表示的是一般意义上的能力. 这解释了为何在圣言中, 神性能力经常用 “伸出来的膀臂” 和 “大能的手” 来表达, 如在这些经文:

我用大能和伸出来的膀臂, 创造大地和地面上的人, 牲畜. (耶利米书 27:5)

又:

主耶和华啊, 看哪, 你曾用大能和伸出来的膀臂创造天地, 在你没神奇的事; 用神迹奇事和大能的手并伸出来的膀臂, 领你的百姓以色列从埃及地领出来. (耶利米书 32:17, 21)

以西结书:

我必用大能的手和伸出来的膀臂, 将你们从万民中领出来, 从你们分散到的各地聚集你们. (以西结书 20:34)

诗篇:

祂用大能的手和伸出来的膀臂领以色列人从埃及人中间出来. (诗篇 136:11, 12)

另外也可参看申命记 (4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 9:29; 11:2; 26:8), 列王纪上 (8:42), 列王纪下 (17:36).