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.

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

3399. 就内义而言, “和你的妻子同寝” 表败坏和玷污真理, 此处的真理是神性, 因为 “妻子” 或利百加代表神圣真理, 如前所示. 这从以下事实可以看出来: 在圣言中, “同寝”, “淫行” 和 “妓女” 无非表示对良善的玷污和对真理的歪曲 (2466, 2729节). 这是因为淫行与婚姻之爱完全相反, 以至于它们是对婚姻之爱的毁灭; 婚姻之爱源于良善与真理的婚姻 (2508, 2618, 2727-2759, 3132节). 因此, 那些违反良善与真理, 或毁灭它们的事物在圣言中就被称为 “淫行”.

但要知道, 那些属于属灵教会的人无法将良善玷污到亵渎它的程度, 因为他们对良善的接受程度到不了像属天之人那样能直觉它的程度. 然而, 他们能亵渎真理, 因为他们能承认真理. 不过, 在教会的末期, 他们甚至不能承认真理, 因为那时所盛行的是, 他们普遍不信主, 死后生命和内在人. 所盛行的这种普遍不信能防止他们深入信的内在真理. 这种普遍盛行在每个人身上的东西限制并阻止他们更深地进入到这类事物中, 无论是在此人没有意识到这种普遍不信的时候, 还是在他以为自己相信的时候.

但属于属天教会的人却能亵渎良善, 因为这些人能接受良善, 甚至于能直觉它. 这就是大洪水前之人的情形, 因此他们与其他人隔离开, 被关在与其他人的地狱隔离的地狱中 (对此, 参看1265-1272节). 经上说 “那人赶出伊甸园, 耶和华又从伊甸园的东边安设基路伯, 还有剑的火焰自行转动, 要把守生命树的道路”, 就表示防止亵渎良善的情况再次发生 (创世记 3:24; 参看308, 310节).