Arcana Coelestia#2777
2777. 'On one of the mountains' means Divine love. This is clear from the meaning of 'a mountain' as love, dealt with in 795, 796, 1430, here Divine love since it has reference to the Lord. For the nature of that love, see 1690, 1601 (end), 1789, 1812, 1820, 2077, 2253, 2500, 2572. As it was Divine love from which the Lord fought and overcame in temptations, and from which He sanctified and glorified Himself, Abraham is in this verse told to offer Isaac as a burnt offering 'on one of the mountains' in the land of Moriah. Light is shed on this representative act by the fact that David built an altar, and Solomon the Temple, on Mount Moriah, 2775. For the altar on which burnt offerings and sacrifices were offered, and later the Temple, was the chief representative of the Lord. The fact that the altar was the chief representative of Him may be seen in 921 and is clear in David,
They will bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwellings. Then I will go in to the altar or God, to God my exceeding joy. Psalms 43:3-4.
And that 'the Temple' was representative of Him is clear in John,
Jesus said, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again. He was speaking of the temple of His body. John 2:19, 21.
John第2章
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The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.
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Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
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When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
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Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
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His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
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Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
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Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." They filled them up to the brim.
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He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.
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When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
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and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
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This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
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After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
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The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
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He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.
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To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
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His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
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The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
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Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
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The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"
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But he spoke of the temple of his body.
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When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
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But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
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and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
