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DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 2129There is a marriage of the Lord and the church and a derivativemarriage of good and truth in each and every thing of the Word80. Hitherto this has not been seen, nor could it be seen, becausethe spiritual sense of the Word has not until now been disclosed,and it cannot be seen except by means of this sense. For in theWord two senses, the spiritual and the celestial, lie hidden withinthe sense of the letter. In the spiritual sense the things in the Wordrefer especially to the church, and in the celestial sense, especially tothe Lord. In the spiritual sense they also refer to Divine truth, andin the celestial to Divine good. From this comes the marriage inquestion in the sense of the letter of the Word. But this appears tothose only who know from the Word’s spiritual and celestial sensethe significations of the words and names, for some of these arepredicated of good and some of truth, and some include both, sothat without this knowledge the marriage that exists in each andevery thing of the Word could not be seen. This is the reason whythis secret has not been disclosed before.81. As there is such a marriage in each and every thing of theWord, there frequently occur in it two expressions that appear likerepetitions of the same thing. They however are not repetitions, forone of them has reference to good and the other to truth, and bothtaken together effect a conjunction of good and truth, and thusform one thing. From this too comes the divinity of the Word andits holiness, for in every Divine work good is conjoined with truthand truth with good.82. It is said that in each and every thing of the Word there is amarriage of the Lord and the church and a derivative marriage ofgood and truth, because wherever there is a marriage of the Lordand the church there is also a marriage of good and truth, for thelatter is from the former. For when the church or man of thechurch is in truths, the Lord inflows into his truths with good, andvivifies them. Or what is the same, when through truths the churchor man of the church is in intelligence, the Lord inflows into his
DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 213intelligence through the good of love and of charity, and thus pourslife into it.83. With every man there are two faculties of life, calledunderstanding and will. The understanding is the receptacle oftruth and the derivative wisdom, and the will is the receptacle ofgood and the derivative love. For a man to be a man of the churchthese two must make a one, and this they do when the man formshis understanding from genuine truths, which to all appearance isdone as by himself; and when his will is infilled with the good oflove, which is done by the Lord. From this the man has a life oftruth and a life of good, a life of truth in the understanding fromthe will, and a life of good in the will through the understanding.This is the marriage of truth and good in a man, and also themarriage of the Lord and the church in him. But concerning thisreciprocal conjunction called a marriage, more will be seen inAngelic Wisdom concerning Divine Providence, Divine Love andWisdom, and Doctrine of Life.84. Readers of the Word who pay attention to the matter can seethat there are pairs of expressions in it that appear like repetitionsof the same thing, such as “brother” [and “companion,” “poor”]and “needy,” “waste” and “solitude,” “vacuity” and “emptiness,”“foe” and “enemy,” “sin” and “iniquity,” “anger” and “wrath,”“nation” and “people,” “joy” and “gladness,” “mourning” and“weeping,” “righteousness” and “judgment,” etc. These expressionsappear synonymous but are not so, for “brother,” “poor,” “waste,”[“vacuity,”] “foe,” “sin,” “anger,” “nation,” “joy,” “mourning,” and“righteousness” are predicated of good, and in the opposite sense ofevil; whereas “companion,” “needy,” “solitude,” “emptiness,”“enemy,” “iniquity,” “wrath,” “people,” “gladness,” “weeping,” and“judgment” are predicated of truth, and in the opposite sense offalsity. And yet it seems to a reader who is not acquainted with thissecret, that “poor” and “needy,” “waste” and “solitude,” “vacuity”and “ emptiness,” “foe” and “enemy,” are one and the same thing;and in like manner “sin” and “iniquity,” “anger” and “wrath,”“nation” and “people,” “joy” and “gladness,” “mourning” and“weeping,” “righteousness” and “judgment”; and yet they are not
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