2233, 2331, 2559, 4982, 7848, 7929). "Rooms"
and "bed-chambers" signify interior things there (n. 3900,
5694, 7353). The "roof of a house" signifies what is inmost (n.
3652, 10184). A "house of wood" signifies what relates to good,
and a "house of stone" what relates to truth (n. 3720).
{Footnote 2} A "garden" or "park" signifies intelligence and
wisdom (n. 100, 108, 3220). What is meant by "the garden of
Eden" and "the garden of Jehovah" (n. 99, 100, 1588). How
magnificent the things seen in parks are in the other life (n.
1122, 1622, 2296, 4528, 4529). "Trees" signify perceptions and
knowledges, from which wisdom and intelligence are derived (n.
103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972, 7692). "Fruits" signify goods of
love and goods of charity (n. 3146, 7690, 9337).
187. This makes clear why the Lord called Himself the temple at
Jerusalem (John 2:19, 21),{1} namely, because the temple represented
His Divine Human; also why the New Jerusalem was seen to be of pure
gold, its gates of pearls, and its foundations of precious stones
(Apoc. 21), namely, because the New Jerusalem signifies the church
which was afterwards to be established, the twelve gates its truths
leading to good, and the foundations the truths on which the church
is founded.
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