620.启14:4.“这些人未曾沾染妇女，他们原是童身”表他们没有在教会的真理中掺入杂质，以信之虚假玷污它们，而是因它们是真理而热爱真理。“妇女”表示源于对真理的情感的教会，因而在反面意义上表示源于对虚假的情感的教会（参看434，533节），在此表示源于对真理的情感的教会，因为经上说“这些人未曾沾染妇女”；“沾染妇女”与奸淫并行淫所表相同。“奸淫和行淫”表示玷污和歪曲圣言（参看134节）。“他们原是童身”表示他们热爱真理，是因为它们是真理，因而出于属灵的情感而热爱真理；“童身”（即童女或处女，virgins）之所表示这些人，是因为“童女”（或处女，童身，virgins）表示作为渴望与主结合，成为妻子的新妇的教会；渴望与主结合的教会热爱真理，是因为它们是真理；当人照真理生活时，结合就是藉着真理实现了。正因如此，在圣言中，以色列、锡安和耶路撒冷被称为“童女”和“女儿”（或女子）；因为“以色列”、“锡安”和“耶路撒冷”表示教会。
在主的教会，所有这样的人都由“童女”（或童身）来表示，无论是少女或少男，妻子或丈夫，男孩或老年男子，女孩或老年妇女；这一点从圣言中提及 “童女”（或“处女”、“童身”）的地方明显看出来，如：“处女以色列”（耶利米书18:13；31:4，21；阿摩司书5:2；约珥书1:8）；“犹大的处女”（耶利米哀歌1:15）；“锡安的处女”（列王纪下19:21；以赛亚书37:22；耶利米哀歌1:4；2:13）；“耶路撒冷的处女”（耶利米哀歌2:10）；“我百姓的处女”（耶利米书14:17）。因此，主将教会比作“十个童女”（马太福音25:1等）。在耶利米书，经上说：
以色列的处女哪，我要再建立你，你就被建立，你必与欢乐的人一同跳舞而出。（耶利米书31:4，13）
诗篇：
神啊，他们已经看见你，看见我的神、我的王行走，进入圣所；都在击鼓的童女中间。（诗篇68:24，25）
王的女儿在你尊贵妇女之中，王后佩戴俄斐金饰站在你右手边；女儿啊，你要听、要看；王羡慕你的美貌；推罗的女儿必来送礼，民中的富足人也必向你求恩；王的女儿在里面极其荣华；她的衣服是用金线绣的，她要穿锦绣的衣服被引到王前；陪伴她的童女要进入王宫。（诗篇 45:9-15）
在这段经文中，“王”表示主，“王后”表示作为妻子的教会，“女儿”和“童女表示对良善与真理的情感。
在圣言其它部分，与“少年”（或少男）一并提及的“处女”（或少女，童女）表示类似的情感，因为“少年”（或少男）表示真理，“处女”（或少女，童女）表示对这些真理的情感；如以下经文：
看哪，日子将到，我必差饥荒到地上，人饥饿非因无饼，干渴非因无水，乃因不听耶和华的话；当那日，美貌的处女和少年的男子必因干渴发昏。（阿摩司书8:11，13）
西顿哪，你当惭愧；因为大海说，我没有劬劳，也没有生产，没有养育少男，也没有抚养童女。（以赛亚书23:4）
主将处女，就是犹大的女儿踹下，像在酒榨中一样；看我的痛苦，我的处女和少年人都被掳去。（耶利米哀歌1:4，15，18）
祂的良善何等大，祂的荣美何其盛；五谷健壮少男，新酒培养处女。（撒迦利亚书9:17）
城中街道上必满有男孩女孩在街上玩耍。（撒迦利亚书8:5）
耶路撒冷的处女坐在地上；锡安的处女哪，我可将你比作什么呢？我的处女和少男都在街上躺卧。 （耶利米哀歌2:10，13，21）
此外还有其它经文（如耶利米书51:20-23；耶利米哀歌5:11，13，14；以西结书9:4，6；诗篇78:62-64；申命记32:25）。
620. 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. This symbolically means that they did not adulterate the church's truths or defile them with the falsities of their faith, but loved the truths because they are true.
A woman symbolizes the church from an affection for truth, and so in an opposite sense the church from an affection for falsity, as may be seen in nos. 434, 533 above - here the church from an affection for truth, because we are told that they were not defiled with women. Being defiled with women has the same symbolic meaning as committing adultery and behaving licentiously. To commit adultery and behave licentiously means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word, as may be seen in no. 134 above.
For they are virgins means, symbolically, because they have loved truths because they are true, thus loving them from a spiritual affection. These are meant by virgins because a virgin symbolizes the church as a bride who desires to be conjoined with the Lord and to become a wife; and a church that desires to be conjoined with the Lord loves truths because they are true. For truths bring about conjunction when people live in accordance with them.
That is why Israel, Zion and Jerusalem are called in the Word virgins and daughters; for Israel, Zion and Jerusalem symbolize the church.
[2] People in the Lord's church who are of such a character are all meant by virgins, whether they are maidens or youths, wives or husbands, boys or old men, girls or old ladies, and this can be seen from places in the Word where virgins are mentioned, such as the virgin of Israel (Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21, Amos 5:2, Joel 1:8); the virgin daughter of Judah (Lamentations 1:15); the virgin daughter of Zion (2 Kings 19:21, Isaiah 37:22, Lamentations 1:4; 2:13); the virgins of Jerusalem (Lamentations 2:10); the virgin of My people (Jeremiah 14:17).
For that reason the Lord likened the church to ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), and we read in Jeremiah:
...I will build you, that you may be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again... go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (Jeremiah 31:4, 13)
And in the book of Psalms:
They have seen Your goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary..., in the midst of maidens playing timbrels. (Psalms 68:24-25)
And elsewhere:
Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones; at Your right hand stands the queen in pure gold from Ophir.
Listen, O daughter, and see... The King will delight in your beauty... The daughter of Tyre also will bring a gift; the rich among the people will appease Your face.
The King's daughter is all precious within; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. The virgins after her, her companions, shall come... into the palace of the King. (Psalms 45:9-15)
The King there means the Lord; the queen the church as a wife; and the daughters and virgins affections for goodness and truth.
[3] Similar affections are symbolically meant by virgins elsewhere in the Word in places where young men are mentioned at the same time, because young men symbolize truths, and virgins affections for those truths. For instance, in the following places:
Behold, the days are coming... that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)
Be ashamed, O Sidon; ...the sea has said..., "I have not travailed or given birth; neither have I reared young men or brought up virgins." (Isaiah 33:4)
The Lord trampled a winepress for the virgin daughter of Zion... Behold my sorrow; the virgins and the young men have gone into captivity. (Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18)
...how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty! Grain shall make the young men grow up, and new wine the young women. (Zechariah 9:17)
The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in My streets. (Zechariah 8:5)
They sit on the ground..., the virgins of Jerusalem... To what shall I liken you..., O virgin daughter of Zion... ...They lay... in the streets..., My virgins and My young men... (Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21)
And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 51:20-23, Lamentations 5:11, 13, 14, Ezekiel 9:4, 6, Psalms 78:62-64, Deuteronomy 32:25.
620. [verse 4] 'These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins' signifies that they have not adulterated the truths of the Church and defiled them with untruths of faith, but they have loved truths because they are true. That a 'woman' signifies the Church derived from the affection of truth, and consequently in the opposite sense the Church derived from the affection of untruth, may be seen above (434, 533). Here the Church derived from the affection of truth [is signified], because it is said 'they have not been defiled with women.' 'To be defiled with women' has a similar signification to committing adultery and whoredom. That 'to commit adultery and whoredom' signifies to adulterate and falsify the Word, may also be seen above (134). 'For they are virgins' signifies because they have loved truths because they are true, thus out of a spiritual affection. The reason why these are understood by 'virgins' is because a 'virgin' signifies the Church as a bride who is willing to be conjoined to the Lord and to become a wife, and the Church that is willing to be conjoined to the Lord loves truths because they are true, for by means of truths, so long as there is a living in accordance with them, the conjunction is effected. In consequence of this Israel, Zion and Jerusalem are in the Word termed 'virgins' and 'daughters,' for by 'Israel,' 'Zion' and 'Jerusalem' the Church is signified.
[2] That all those belonging to the Lord's Church who are such, whether they are virgins or young men, wives or husbands, youths or old men, maidens or old women, are understood by 'virgins' can be established out of the Word where 'virgins' are mentioned, as:
The virgin of Israel. Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21; Amos 5:2; Joel 1:8.
The virgin daughter of Judah, Lamentations 1:15.
The virgin daughter of Zion, 2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 37:22; Lamentations 1:4; 2:13.
The virgins of Jerusalem, Lamentations 2:10.
The virgin of My people. Jeremiah 14:17.
And therefore:
The Lord likened the Church to ten virgins, Matthew 25 seq.
Also it is said in Jeremiah:
I will build thee so that thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel, thou shalt again go forth into the dance of those at play. 31:4, 13; and in David:
They have seen Thy steps, O God, the steps of my God, of my King in the sanctuary, in the midst of the virgins playing with timbrels. Psalms 68:24-25 [H.B. 25-26]; and elsewhere:
Kings' daughters were among thy precious ones; the queen stood at thy right hand in best gold of Ophir: hear, O daughter, and see, the King shall be delighted with thy beauty. The daughter of Tyre also shall bring a gift, the rich ones of the people shall entreat thy faces: the King's daughter is all precious within, her clothing is of woven gold, she shall be brought to the King [clothed] in needlework; the virgins after her, her companions, shall come into the King's palace. Psalms 45:9-15 [H.B. 10-16]; there by 'the King' is understood the Lord, by 'the queen' the Church as a wife, by 'daughters' and 'virgins' the affections of good and truth.
[3] Similar affections are signified by 'virgins' elsewhere in the Word, where 'young men' are mentioned at the same time, because 'young men' signify truths and 'virgins' the affections thereof, as in the following passages:
Behold, the days are coming in which I will send a famine in the land, not a hunger for bread nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the word of Jehovah; in that day shall the beautiful virgins and the young men faint for thirst, Amos 8:11, 13.
Blush, O Zidon, the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither do I bring up young men, I have made virgins to grow up. Isaiah 23:4.
The Lord has trodden the winepress to the virgin daughter of Zion 1: behold my sorrow, the virgins and young men have gone into captivity, Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18.
How great is His goodness, and how great is His beauty; corn shall make the young men to grow up, and must the virgins, Zechariah 9:17.
The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in my 2streets, Zechariah 8:5.
The virgins of Jerusalem sit upon the ground; to what shall I liken thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? my virgins and young men have lain in the streets, Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21; besides elsewhere, as Jeremiah 51:20-23; Lamentations 5:10-12 [2:13-14?]; Ezekiel 9:4, 6; Psalms 78:62-64; Deuteronomy 32:25.
620. Verse 4. These are they who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins, signifies that they had not adulterated the truths of the church, and defiled them with the falsities of faith, but that they had loved truths because they are truths. That "a woman" signifies the church from the affection of truth, and thence, in the opposite sense, the church from the affection of falsity, may be seen above, (434, 533), here the church from the affection of truth, because it is said "not defiled with women;" by "to be defiled with women," the same is signified as by to commit adultery and whoredom. That "to commit adultery and whoredom" signifies to adulterate and falsify the Word, may also be seen above, (134). "For they are virgins," signifies because they have loved truths because they are truths, thus from spiritual affection; the reason why these are meant by "virgins," is because "a virgin" signifies the church as a bride, who desires to be conjoined with the Lord, and to become a wife; and the church which desires to be conjoined with the Lord, loves truths because they are truths, for by truths, when one lives according to them, conjunction is effected. Hence it is that Israel, Zion, and Jerusalem, in the Word, are called "virgins" and "daughters;" for by "Israel," "Zion," and "Jerusalem," is signified the church.
[2] That all they who are such in the Lord's church, whether they be virgins or young men, wives or husbands, boys or old men, girls or old women, are meant by "virgins," may appear from the Word, where virgins are mentioned, as "the virgin Israel" (Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21; Amos 5:2; Joel 1:8). "The virgin daughter of Judah" (Lamentations 1:15). "The virgin daughter of Zion" (2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 37:22; Lamentations 1:4; 2:13). "The virgins of Jerusalem" (Lamentations 2:10). "The virgin of My people" (Jeremiah 14:17). Therefore the Lord likened the church to "ten virgins" (Matthew 25:1, and following verses). And it is said in Jeremiah:
I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin Israel, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that play, (Jeremiah 31:4, 13).
And in David:
They have seen Thy goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary; among them were the virgins playing with timbrels, (Psalms 68:24-25).
Kings' daughters were among Thy precious ones, at Thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir; hear, O daughter, and see; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty; and the daughter of Tyre shall bring a gift, the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor; the king's daughter is all precious within; her clothing is of woven gold, she shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins her companions that follow her shall enter into the king's palace, (Psalms 45:9-15).
By "the king" in this passage is meant the Lord, by "the queen," the church as a wife, by "daughters" and "virgins," the affections of good and truth.
[3] Similar affections are signified by "virgins" in other parts of the Word, where mention is made at the same time of "young men," because "young men" signify truths, and "virgins" the affections thereof; as in the following passages:
Behold, the days come, in which I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah; in that day shall the beautiful virgins and the young men faint for thirst, (Amos 8:11, 13).
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea hath said, I travail not, nor bring forth, neither do I nourish young men, nor bring up virgins, (Isaiah 23:4).
The Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as a wine-press; behold my sorrow, the virgins and the young men have gone into captivity, (Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18).
How great is His goodness and how great is His beauty; corn shall make the young men grow up, and new wine, the virgins, (Zechariah 9:17).
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof, (Zechariah 8:5).
The virgins of Jerusalem sit on the earth; to what shall I liken thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? My virgins and young men lie in the streets, (Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21; besides other passag es, as Jeremiah 51:20-23; Lamentations 5:10-12; Ezekiel 9:4, 6; Psalms 78:62-64; Deuteronomy 32:25).
620. (Vers. 4.) "Hi sunt qui cum mulieribus non sunt inquinati, virgines enim sunt," significat quod non adulteraverint vera Ecclesiae, et conspurcaverint illa falsis fidei, sed quod amaverint vera quia sunt vera. - Quod "mulier" significet Ecclesiam ex affectione veri, et inde in opposito sensu Ecclesiam ex affectione falsi, videatur supra (434, 533), hic Ecclesiam ex affectione veri, quia dicitur "cum mulieribus non inquinati;" "inquinari cum mulieribus" simile significat cum adulterari et scortari; quod "adulterari" et "scortari" significet adulterare et falsificare Verbum, videatur etiam supra (134); "virgines enim sunt," significat quia amaverunt vera quia vera sunt, ita ex affectione spirituali; causa quod hi per "virgines" intelligantur, est quia "virgo" significat Ecclesiam ut Sponsam, quae vult conjungi Domino, et fieri Uxor; et Ecclesia quae vult conjungi Domino, illa amat vera quia vera sunt; nam per vera, dum vivitur secundum illa, fit conjunctio. Inde est, quod Israel, Zion et Hierosolyma, in Verbo dicantur "Virgines" et "Filiae;" per "Israelem" enim, "Sionem" et "Hierosolymam," significatur Ecclesia. Quod omnes illi qui ab Ecclesia Domini tales sunt, sive sint virgines aut juvenes, uxores aut mariti, pueri aut senes, puellae aut vetulae, per "virgines intelligantur, constare potest ex Verbo, ubi "virgines" nominantur; ut "Virgo Israel," (Jeremias 18:13; 31:4, 21; Amos 5:2; Joel 1:8);
"Virgo Filia Jehudae," (Threni 1:15);
"Virgo Filia Sionis," (2 Regnum 19:21; 1Esaias 37:22; Threni 1:4; 2:13);
"Virgines Hierosolymae," (Threni 2:10);
"Virgo populi Mei," (Jeremias 14:17).
Quare Dominus assimilavit Ecclesiam "Decem Virginibus," (Matthaeus 25:1, seq.);
et dicitur apud Jeremiam,
"Aedificabo te, ut aedificata sis Virgo Israel; denuo exibis in chorum ludentium," (31:4, 13); 2
et apud Davidem,
"Viderunt gressus Tuos, Deus, gressus Dei mei, Regis mei in Sanctuario; in medio Virginum tympanizantium," (Psalm 68:25-26 (B.A. 24-25));
et alibi,
"Filiae Regum inter pretiosas tuas, 3consistit Regina ad dextram tuam in auro optimo Ophiris: audi Filia et vide; delectabitur Rex pulchritudine tua: etiam Filia Tyri afferet munus, facies tuas deprecabuntur divites populi: tota pretiosa Filia Regis intus; de implexis auri vestis ejus, in acupictis adducetur Regi; Virgines post illam amicae ejus, venient in palatium Regis," (Psalm 45:10-16 (B.A. 9-15));
ibi per "Regem" intelligitur Dominus, per "Reginam" Ecclesia ut Uxor, per "filias" et "virgines" affectiones boni et veri. Similes affectiones per "virgines" significantur in Verbo alibi, ubi "juvenes" simul nominantur, quia "juvenes" significant vera, ac "virgines" affectiones illorum; ut in sequentibus locis:
"Ecce dies venturi, quibus immittam famem in terra, non famem ad panem, nec sitim ad aquas, sed ad audiendum verba Jehovae; in die illo deficient Virgines pulchrae, et Juvenes siti," (Amos 8:11, 13);
"Erubesce Zidon; dixit Mare, Non parturivi, nec peperi, et non educavi Juvenes, adolescere feci Virgines," (Esaias 23:4);
"Torcular calcavit Dominus Virgini Filiae Jehudae; 4videte dolorem meum; Virgines et Juvenes iverunt in captivitatem," (Threni 1:4, 15, 18);
"Quantum bonum Ipsius, et quanta pulchritudo Ipsius; frumentum Juvenes, et mustum adolescere fecit Virgines," (Sacharias 9:17);
"Implebuntur plateae urbis Pueris et Puellis ludentibus in plateis ejus," 5(Sacharias 8:5);
"Sedent in terra (, tacent Seniores Filiae Sionis, descendere fecerunt in terram caput suum) Virgines Hierosolymae; cui assimilabo te, Virgo Filia Sionis; Virgines meae et Juvenes jacuerunt in plateis," (Threni 2:10, 13, 21).
(Praeter alibi, ut Jeremias 51:20-23; Threni 5:10-12; Ezechiel 9:4, 6; Psalm 78:62-64; Deuteronomius 32:25).
Footnotes:
1. 2 Reg. pro "1 Reg."
2. xxxi. pro "xxx."
3. tuas pro "suas"
4. Jehudae pro "Sionis"
5. ejus pro "Meis" (Vide Arcana Coelestia 5236.)"