217.“看哪，我站在门外叩门”表主在圣言中呈现给每个人，并在那里催促被接受，也指示人当如何接受。主在路加福音也说过类似的话：
你要像人等候主人从婚筵上回来；祂来到叩门，他们就立刻给祂开门。（路加福音12:36）
“门”表允许进入和入口（176节）。
217. "'Behold, I stand at the door and knock.'" (3:20) This symbolically means that the Lord is present with everyone in the Word, and He presses there to be received, teaching how He can be.
Similar to this is the Lord's statement in Luke,
You yourselves (must) be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately. (Luke 12:36)
That a door symbolizes admittance and an entryway may be seen in no. 176 above.
217. [verse 20] 'Behold I stand at the door (janua) and knock' signifies that the Lord is present with every one in the Word, and draws nigh there to be received, and teaches how [this may come to pass]. [Words] similar to these are said by the Lord in Luke:
You shall be like unto men who wait for their Lord, when He is going no return from the wedding, so that when He comes and knocks, they may open to Him immediately. Luke 12:36.
That a 'door' signifies admission and entrance may be seen above (176).
217. Verse 20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock, signifies that the Lord is present to everyone in the Word, and is there pressing to be received, and teaches how. Something similar to this is said by the Lord in Luke:
Be ye like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately, (Luke 12:36).
That "door" signifies admission and entrance, may be seen above, (176).
217. (Vers. 20.) "Ecce sto ad januam et pulso," significat quod Dominus unicuique praesens sit in Verbo, ac ibi instet quod recipiendus sit, ac doceat quomodo. - His similia dicuntur a Domino apud Lucam:
"Vos similes eritis hominibus exspectantibus Dominum suum, quando reversurus est a nuptiis, ut cum venerit et pulsa" erit, statim aperiant Illi," (12:36).
Quod "janua" significet admissionem et introitum, videatur supra (176).