BE71.简要分析：我们在马太福音中读到：门徒进前来、把殿宇指给他看、耶稣对他们说、我实在告诉你们、将来在这里没有一块石头留在石头上、不被拆毁了、耶稣在橄榄山上坐着、门徒暗暗地来说、请告诉我们、什么时候有这些事、你降临和世界（原文是：世代）的末了有什么预兆呢（马太福音24:1-3)。如今，饱学的神职人员和有学问的平信徒们将“殿宇被拆毁”理解成被维斯帕西安（罗马皇帝）毁掉，将“主的降临和世代的末了”理解成这个世界的终结和毁灭。不过当知道，“殿宇被拆毁”不仅意味着被罗马人毁掉，还象征性表示当今教会被毁；“世代的末了”以及随后“主的降临”象征性表示该教会的终结和一个新的教会由主兴起。有这样的象征意义，是因为那一章从头到尾所论的，可以说，仅仅是基督徒教会衰落和败坏、直至它走向结局时被毁所连续经历的状态。狭义而言，“殿”指耶路撒冷中的殿；广义而言，象征主的教会；更广泛的意义，象征天使之天；最高的意义，在他的人（HisHuman）这方面象征主自己（参阅《揭开启示》AR529）。“世代的末了”象征教会的结束，当圣经被歪曲，教会因此不再有任何真理的教导，因而走到尽头（参阅《揭开启示》AR658，676，750）。“主的降临”象征主在圣经中的到来，一个新的教会取代先前结束的那一个；可从同一章30-34节他自己的话明显看出；还可从启示录最后的第21和22章看出，那里有以下话语：我耶稣是大卫的根、又是他的后裔、我是明亮的晨星、圣灵和新妇都说、来、听见的人也该说、来、口渴的人也当来、是了、我必快来、阿们、主耶稣啊、我愿你来（启示录22:16，17，20）。
71. BRIEF ANALYSIS
We read in Matthew:
The disciples came to Jesus and showed Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them . . . Verily I say unto you. There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down . . . And the disciples said to Him, Tell us when shall these things be, and especially what shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the consummation of the age. Matthew 24:1-3.
At this day, the learned clergy and the educated laity understand by the destruction of the temple its destruction by Vespasian; and by the coming of the Lord and the consummation of the age they understand the end and destruction of the world. But it should be known that by the destruction of the temple is meant, not only its destruction by the Romans, but also the destruction of the present Church; further, that by the consummation of the age and, then, the coming of the Lord is meant the end of this Church and the institution of a New Church by the Lord. That these things are meant there is evident from the whole of that chapter from beginning to end, treating, as it does, solely of the successive stages of decline and corruption of the Christian Church, even to its destruction, when it comes to its end. In a limited sense, by the temple is meant the temple at Jerusalem; in an extended sense, the Church of the Lord; in a still more extended sense, the angelic heaven and in the highest sense, the Lord as to His Human; as may be seen in THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED 529.
That by the consummation of the age is meant the end of the Church, which comes to pass when there remains no truth of doctrine from the Word which has not been falsified, and thus consummated, is shown in nos. THE APOCALYPSE REVEALED 658, 676, 750. That by the coming of the Lord is meant His coming in the Word, and the inauguration of a new Church in place of the former consummated one, appears from His own words in the aforesaid chapter, Matthew 24:30-34; likewise from the last two chapters of the Revelation, 21 and 22, where these words occur:
I, Jesus,... am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and morning Star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come; and let him that heareth say, Come: and let him that is athirst come. . . . Yea, I come quickly, Amen. Even so come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:16-17, 20.
71. BRIEF ANALYSIS.
We read in Matthew:
The disciples came to Jesus, and showed Him the buildings of the temple; and Jesus said unto them, Verily, I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down. And the disciples said unto Him, tell us when these things shall be, especially what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the consummation of the age (Matthew 24:1-3).
At this day the learned clergy and laity understand by the destruction of the temple, its destruction by Vespasian, and by the coming of the Lord, and the consummation of the age, they understand the end and destruction of the world. But by the destruction of the temple is not only meant the destruction thereof by the Romans, but likewise the destruction of the present church; and by the consummation of the age, and the coming of the Lord at that time, is meant the end of the present church and the establishment of a New Church by the Lord.
That these things are there meant, is evident from the whole of that chapter from beginning to end, which treats solely of the successive decline and corruption of the Christian church, even to its destruction, when it is at an end. That by "the temple," in a limited sense is meant the temple at Jerusalem; in a wide sense the church of the Lord; in a wider sense the angelic heaven; and, in the widest sense, the Lord as to His Human may be seen in The Apocalypse Revealed 529). That by "the consummation of the age" is meant the end of the church, which comes to pass when there does not remain any truth of doctrine from the Word that is not falsified, and thus consummated (n. 658, 676, 750, of the same work). That by "the coming of the Lord" is meant His coming in the Word, and at the same time the establishment of a New Church instead of the former consummated one, evidently appears from His own words in the same chapter, from verse 30 to 34; as likewise from the last two chapters, 21 and 22, of Revelation, where also are these words:
I, Jesus, am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and morning Star. And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and let him that heareth say, Come; and him that thirsteth let him come. Yea, I come quickly: Amen, even so come, Lord Jesus (Revelation 22:16-17, 20).
71. BREVIS ANALYSIS.
Legitur apud Matthaeum, Accesserunt Discipuli ad Jesum, et ostenderunt Ipsi structuras Templi, et dixit illis Jesus, amen dico vobis, non relinquetur hic lapis super lapide, qui non dissolvetur. Et dixerunt Ipsi Discipuli, dic nobis quando illa erunt, imprimis quodnam signum TUI ADVENTUS ET CONSUMMATIONIS SAECULI, Cap. 24 Vers. 1-2, 3. Hodie a doctis Clericis et ab eruditis laicis per destructionem Templi intelligitur destructio ejus a Vespasiano et per Adventum Domini, et Consummationem saeculi, intelligitur finis ac interitus Mundi: sed per destructionem Templi, non modo intelligitur destructio ejus a Romanis, sed etiam destructio Ecclesiae hodiernae; et per Consummationem saeculi, et tunc Adventum Domini, intelligitur finis hujus Ecclesiae, ac instauratio Novae a Domino quod haec intelligantur, patet ex toto illo Capite a principio ad finem, ubi solum de successivis declinationibus et corruptionibus Ecclesiae Christianae, usque ad interitum ejus, quando finis, agitur. Quod per Templum in stricto sensu intelligatur Templum Hierosolymitanum, in lato sensu Ecclesia Domini, in latiori Caelum Angelicum, et in latissimo Dominus quoad Humanum suum, videatur in Apocalypsi Revelata, n. 529. Quod per Consummationem saeculi intelligatur finis Ecclesiae, qui est, dum non aliquod verum doctrine ex Verbo, quod non falsificatum et sic consummatum est, superest, n. 658, 676, 750, ibi. Quod per Adventum Domini intelligatur Adventus Ipsius in Verbo, et tunc instauratio Novae Ecclesiae loco prioris consummatae, constat ex Ipsius verbis in eodem Capite a Versu 30-34; tum a binis ultimis Capitibus 21 et 22 in Apocalypsi, ubi etiam haec "Ego Jesus sum Radix et Genus Davidis, Stella splendida et matutina; et Spiritus et Sponsa dicunt, veni; et audiens dicat veni; et sitiens veniat: etiam venio cito, amen, etiam veni Domine Jesu," Cap. 22:[16,] 17, 20.