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.

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

4832. “犹大的长子珥在耶和华眼中看为恶” 表它沉浸在源于邪恶的虚假中. 这从 “珥” 的代表和 “长子” 的含义清楚可知: “珥” 和 “长子” 是指信之虚假, 如刚才所述 (4830节). 该虚假是源于邪恶的虚假, 这一点从前面所述 (4818节) 明显可知. 不过, 对这个儿子来说, 源于邪恶的虚假具有这样的性质: 甚至连教会的代表也无法建在出身于他的任何后代当中; 故经上说, 他 “在耶和华眼中看为恶, 耶和华就叫他死了”. 从一开始, 尤其从犹大以后开始, 源于邪恶的虚假就存在于那整个民族当中, 尽管该虚假在犹大的儿子们当中各不相同. 可以预见谁是那能用的, 能用的, 不是长子珥里面的东西, 也不是次子俄南里面的东西, 只能是示拉里面的东西. 所以, 头两个儿子都被除灭了, 而第三个保存下来. 源于邪恶的虚假从这个民族一开始就存在于整个民族当中, 在摩西五经, 经上以这些话清楚描述了这一点:

他们败坏自己, 不是祂的儿女, 这是他们的弊病; 他们是乖僻弯曲的世代. 耶和华因发怒便看见, 斥责祂的众子和众女. 祂说, 我要向他们掩面, 看他们的子孙如何; 他们本是极乖僻的一代, 没有忠信的儿女; 我要将祸患堆在他们身上, 把我的箭向他们射尽. 他们必因饥饿消瘦, 被燃烧的煤, 惨烈的倾覆吞灭. 他们是毫无计谋, 心中没有聪明的民族. 他们的葡萄树是所多玛的葡萄树, 蛾摩拉田园所生的. 他们的葡萄是毒葡萄, 全挂都是苦的. 他们的酒是龙的毒气, 是虺蛇残害的恶毒. 这不都是积蓄在我这里, 封锁在我府库中吗? 他们遭灾的日子近了, 那要临在他们身上的事, 必速速来到. (申命记 32:5, 19-24, 28, 32-35)

这些话在内义上描述了存在于这个民族当中并深深扎根在他们里面的源于邪恶的虚假,