[2] That by Jerusalem is meant the Church as to doctrine is also evident from other passages in the Word; as from the following:

In Isaiah:

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God ... ... for Jehovah shall delight in thee, and thy land shall be married. Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, His reward is with Him... And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shall be called, A city sought out, not forsaken. Isa. lxii 1-4, 11, 12.

The whole of this chapter treats of the Coming of the Lord, and of the new Church to be established by Him. This new Church is what is here meant by Jerusalem which shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name; and which shall be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of God; in which Jehovah shall delight, and which shall be called a city sought out, not forsaken. By these things cannot be meant the Jerusalem in which the Jews were when the Lord came into the world, for this was in all respects of a contrary character, and ought rather to have been called Sodom, as it is so called in Revelation xi 8; Isaiah iii 9; Jeremiah xxiii 14; Ezek. xvi 46, 48.

[3] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

Behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered. Be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people. Then the wolf and the lamb shall feed together.... They shall not hurt ... in all my holy mountain. Isa. lxv 17-19, 25.

This chapter also treats of the Coming of the Lord and of the Church to be established by Him; which was not established with those who dwelt in Jerusalem but with those who were outside it. Therefore it is this Church which is meant by the Jerusalem that should be a rejoicing to the Lord, and whose people should be a joy to Him; where also the wolf and the lamb should feed together, and where men should do no hurt. In this chapter also it is said, as in the Revelation, that the Lord would create a new heaven and a new earth; by which also like things are meant; and it is also said that He would create Jerusalem.

[4] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

Awake! awake! put on thy strength, O Zion put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:

My people shall know my name ... in that day for I am He that doth speak; behold, it is I. Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem. Isa. lii 1, 2, 6, 9.

This chapter also treats of the Coming of the Lord, and of the Church to be established by Him. Therefore by Jerusalem, into which should no more come the uncircumcised and the unclean, and which the Lord should redeem, is meant the Church; and by Jerusalem, the holy city, the Church as to doctrine from the Lord.

[5] In Zephaniah:

Sing, O daughter of Zion; be glad ... with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The King of Israel ... is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not fear (A.V. see) evil any more ... Jehovah thy God will. rejoice over thee with joy;

He will rest in thy (A.V. his) love; He will joy over thee with singing. I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth. Zeph. iii 14, 15, 17, 20.

Here likewise the subject is the Lord, and the Church from Him; over which the King of Israel, who is the Lord, will rejoice with joy, and exult with singing; in whose love He will rest, and whom He will make a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth.

[6] In Isaiah:

Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer and thy Maker ... saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built. Isa. xliv 24, 26

And in Daniel:

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks. Dan. ix 25. It is evident that here also by Jerusalem is meant the Church, because this was restored and built by the Lord, but not Jerusalem, the seat of the Jews.

[7] By Jerusalem is meant the Church from the Lord in the following passages also:

In Zechariah:

Thus saith Jehovah, I will return to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and therefore Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth, and the mountain of Jehovah Zebaoth, The holy mountain. Zech. viii 3, 20-23.

In Joel:

Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holiness ... And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. . . And Jerusalem shall dwell from generation to generation. Joel iii 17, 18, 20.

In Isaiah:

In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious ... and it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written to life in Jerusalem. Isa. iv 2, 3.

In Micah:

In the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of Jehovah shall be established in the top of the mountains ... For doctrine shall go forth from Zion, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem ... Unto thee shall the former kingdom come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. Micah iv 1, 2, 8.

In Jeremiah:

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered together, because of the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk after the stubbornness (confirmatio) of their evil heart. Jer. iii 17.

In Isaiah:

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. Isa. xxxiii 20.

Besides many other places; as,

Isaiah xxiv 23; xxxvii 32; lxvi 10-14 Zechariah xii 3, 6, 8-10; xiv 8, 11, 12, 21; Malachi iii 1, 4; Psalm cxxii 1-7; cxxxvii 4-6.

[8] By Jerusalem in these places is meant the Church which was to be established, and which also was established, by the Lord, and not Jerusalem in the land of Canaan inhabited by Jews. This can be seen from those passages in the Word where it is said of the latter that it was utterly ruined, and that it would be destroyed:

Jeremiah v 1; vi 6, 7; vii 17, 18, and following verses; viii 5- 8 and foll.; ix 11, 12, 14 and foll.; xiii 9, 10 14; xiv 16; Lamentations i 8, 9, 17;

Ezekiel iv 1 to the end; v 9 to the end; xii 18, 19; xv 6-8 xvi 1-63; xxiii 1-49; Matthew xxiii [33], 37, 39 Luke xix 41-44; xxi 20-22; xxiii 28-30; and in many other places. * By a city in the Word is signified the doctrine of the Church and of religion. This maybe seen in the ARCANA CAELESTIA, Nos. 402, 2541, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493. By the gate of a city is signified the doctrine through which entrance is made into the Church, Nos. 2943, 4477, 4478. Therefore the elders sat in the gate of the city, and judged, ibid. To go out of the gate, is to recede from doctrine, Nos. 44)2, 4493. Cities and palaces are represented in heaven when angels converse on doctrinals, No. 3216 - Author's Note.