367.启7:9.“披着白袍，手拿棕树枝”表与高层天堂的交流和结合，并出于神性真理的称谢。“披着白袍”表示与天堂有交流和结合（参看328节）。“手拿棕树枝”表示出于神性真理的称谢，因为“棕树枝”表示神性真理；因为每种树都表示教会的某种事物，“棕树枝”表示最终层的神性真理，也就是圣言字义的神性真理；因此：
耶路撒冷圣殿内外所有墙上，以及门上，都刻着基路伯和棕树。（列王纪上6:29，32）以西结书（41:18-20）所提到的新殿也一样。“基路伯”表示圣言（239节），“棕树”表示圣言中的神性真理。至于“棕树”表示圣言的神性真理，“手拿棕树枝”表示出于神性真理的称谢，这一点可从经上的吩咐明显看出来：
在住棚节，他们要拿好树的果子和棕树的叶子，在耶和华面前欢乐。（利未记23:39，40）
当耶稣往耶路撒冷去过节时，他们就拿着棕树枝出去迎接祂，喊着说，奉主名来的是应当称颂的。（约翰福音12:12，13）
以此表示出于神性真理而对主的称谢。在诗篇，“棕树”也表示神性真理：
义人要发旺如棕树，那些栽于耶和华殿中的必生长，他必发旺在我们神的院里。（诗篇92:12，13）
其它地方同样如此。由于耶利哥是约旦河附近的一座城，而“约旦河”表示教会中的首先之物，这首先之物便是神性真理，就是诸如圣言字义中的神性真理，所以这座城被称为“棕树城”（申命记34:3；士师记1:16；3:13）。约旦河是进入迦南地的第一边界或入口，而迦南地表示教会。
367. Clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands. This symbolizes a communication and conjunction with the higher heavens, and a confession springing from Divine truths.
To be clothed with white robes means, symbolically, to have a communication and conjunction with the heavens (see no. 328 above). Holding palm branches in the hands symbolizes confessions springing from Divine truths because palm branches symbolize Divine truths. For every tree symbolizes some element of the church, and palm branches symbolize Divine truth in outmost expressions, which is the Divine truth in the literal sense of the Word.
Engraved, therefore, on all the walls of the Temple in Jerusalem, inside and out, and also on its doors, were cherubim and palm trees (1 Kings 6:29, 32). Likewise in the New Temple described in Ezekiel 41:18-20. Cherubim symbolize the Word (no. 239), and palm trees the Divine truths in it.
That palm trees symbolize Divine truths in the Word, and palm branches in the hands confessions springing from them, can be seen from the fact that the Israelites were commanded to take, at the feast of Tabernacles, "the fruits of honorable trees and branches of palms, and rejoice before Jehovah." (Leviticus 23:39-40)
It can be seen also from the fact that when Jesus came to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, the people "took palm branches and went to meet Him, crying, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'" (John 12:12-13)
These symbolize a confession of the Lord springing from Divine truths.
A palm tree symbolizes Divine truth also in the book of Psalms:
The righteous man shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall grow... planted in the house of Jehovah; he shall sprout in the courts of our God. (Psalms 92:12-13)
So, too, elsewhere.
Because Jericho was a city near the Jordan, and the Jordan river symbolized that which is first in the church, namely Divine truth such as it is in the literal sense of the Word, therefore the city was called the city of palms (Deuteronomy 34:3, Judges 1:16; 3:13). For the Jordan was the first boundary of or point of entrance into the land of Canaan, and the land of Canaan symbolizes the church.
367. 'Clothed with white robes, and palms in [their] hands' signifies communication and conjunction with the higher heavens, and confession out of Divine Truths. That 'to be clothed with white robes' signifies to have communication and conjunction with the heavens may be seen above (328). 'To hold palms in the hands' signifies confession out of Divine Truths, because 'palms' signify Divine Truths; for any one tree signifies something of the Church, and 'palms' Divine Truth in ultimates, which is the Divine Truth of the sense of the letter of the Word. On this account:
Upon all the walls of the Jerusalem temple, within and without, and also upon the doors, were carved cherubs and palms 1 Kings 6:29, 32.
Similarly in the NEW TEMPLE, concerning which [see]. Ezekiel 41:18-20. By 'cherubs' the Word is signified (239), and by 'palms' the Divine Truths of the Word there. That by 'palms' Divine Truths of the Word are signified, and by palms in the hands 'confessions derived therefrom, can be established from the fact that it was commanded that:
At the feast of tabernacles they should take fruits of the tree of honour, and the broad leaves of palms, and rejoice before Jehovah. Leviticus 23:39-40.
When Jesus went to Jerusalem to the feast, they took boughs (termites) of palms, and went to meet Him, crying, Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord. John 12:12-13; by which there was signified a confession out of Divine truths concerning the Lord. 'Palm' also signifies Divine Truth in David:
The just shall flourish like the palm, he that is planted in the house of Jehovah shall grow, he shall sprout forth in the courts of our God. Psalms 92:12-13 [H.B. 13-14].
In like manner elsewhere. Because Jericho was a city near the Jordan, and by the river Jordan was signified what is first in the Church, and this is Divine Truth such as is in the sense of the letter of the Word, therefore that city was called 'the city of palms' (Deuteronomy 34:3; Judges 1:16; 3:13); for the Jordan was the first boundary or entrance into the land of Canaan, and by the land of Canaan is signified the Church.
367. Clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands, signifies communication and conjunction with the higher heavens, and confession from Divine truths. That "to be clothed with white robes," signifies to have communication and conjunction with the heavens, may be seen above, (328). "To hold palms in their hands" signifies confession from Divine truth because "palms" signify Divine truths; for every tree signifies something of the church, and "palms" signify the Divine truth in ultimates, which is the Divine truth of the sense of the letter of the Word; for this reason:
On all the walls of the temple of Jerusalem, within and without, and also upon the doors, were carved cherubim and palms, (1 Kings 6:29, 32).
The same in the new temple, mentioned in Ezekiel 41:18-20. By "cherubim" is signified the Word, (239), and by "palms" Divine truths therein. That by "palms" are signified the Divine truths of the Word, and by "palms in their hands" confessions from them, may appear from its being commanded that:
At the feast of tabernacles they should take fruits of the tree of honor, and leaves of palms, and should be glad before Jehovah, (Leviticus 23:39-40).
When Jesus went to Jerusalem to the feast, they took branches of palms, and went to meet Him, crying, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, (John 12:12-13).
By which was signified confession from Divine truths concerning the Lord. "The palm" signifies Divine truth also in David:
The just shall flourish like the palm, those that be planted in the house of Jehovah shall grow, he shall spring up in the courts of our God, (Psalms 92:12-13).
In like manner in other places. Because Jericho was a city near Jordan, and by "the river Jordan" was signified that which is first in the church, and this is the Divine truth, such as it is in the sense of the letter of the Word, therefore it was called "the city of palms" (Deuteronomy 34:3; Judges 1:16; 3:13). For Jordan was the first boundary or entrance into the land of Canaan, and by the land of Canaan is signified the church.
367. "Induti stolis albis; et palmae in manibus," significat Communicationem et Conjunctionem cum Caelis superioribus, et Confessionem ex Divinis Veris. - Quod "induti stolis albis" significet habere communicationem et conjunctionem cum Caelis, videatur supra (328); quod "tenere palmas in manibus" significet confessiones ex Divinis Veris, est quia "palmae" significant Divina Vera; unaquaevis enim arbor significat aliquid Ecclesiae, et "palmae" Divinum Verum in ultimis, quod est Divinum Verum Sensus literae Verbi: propterea Super omnibus parietibus Templi Hierosolymitani introrsum et extrorsum, et quoque super foribus, sculpti fuerunt Cherubi et Palmae, (1 Regnum 6:29, 32).
(Similiter in Novo Templo, de quo Ezechiel 41:18-20).
Per "Cherubos" significabatur Verbum (239), et per "palmas" Divina Vera ibi. Quod per "palmas" significentur Divina Vera Verbi, et per "palmas in manibus" confessiones ex illis, constare potest ex eo, quod mandatum sit,
Quod in festo Tabernaculorum "acciperent fructus arboris honoris, et spathas Palmarum, et laetarentur coram Jehovah," (Leviticus 23:39-40);
Quod cum Jesus, ivit Hierosolymam ad festum, "sumpserint termites Palmarum, et iverint obviam Ipsi, clamantes, "Benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domini," (Johannes 12:12-13);
per quae significabatur confessio ex Divinis veris de Domino. "Palma" etiam significat Divinum Verum apud Davidem:
"Justus sicut Palma florebit, crescet plantatus in Domo Jehovae, in atriis Dei nostri germinabit," (Psalm 92:13-14 (B.A. 12-13)).
(Similiter alibi.)
Quia Jericho erat urbs prope Jordanem, et per "Jordanem fluvium" significabatur id quod primum est in Ecclesia, et hoc est Divinum Verum quale est in Sensu literae Verbi, ideo illa vocata est Urbs Palmarum, (Deuteronomius 34:3; Judicum 1:16; 3:13);
Jordanes enim erat primus terminus seu ingressus in Terram Canaanem, et per Terram Canaanem significatur Ecclesia.