In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and women generally represent love and the desire for good. This generally carries over into marriage, where the man's growing knowledge and understanding and the woman's desire to be good and useful are a powerful combination. In many cases in the Bible, then, "husband" refers to things of truth and understanding, much as "man" does. Magnificent things can happen in a true marriage, though, when both partners are looking to the Lord. If a husband opens his heart to his wife, it's as though she can implant her loves inside him, transforming his intellectual urges into a love of growing wise. She in turn can grow in her love of that blooming wisdom, and use it for joy in their married life and in their caring for children and others in their life. Many couples, even in heaven, stay in that state -- called "Spiritual" -- growing deeper and deeper to eternity. There is the potential, though, for the couple to be transformed: through the nurturing love of his wife the husband can pass from a love of growing wise to an actual love of wisdom itself, and the wife can be transformed from the love of her husband's wisdom into the wisdom of that love -- the actual expression of the love of the Lord they have built together. In that state -- called "Celestial" -- the husband represents love and the desire for good, and the wife represents truth and knowledge.

145. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 22

1-2 The church adulterating truths and goods of doctrine. (2)

3-6 It is coming nearer to its end. (2)

7-9 They destroy truths and goods by means of it. (2)

10-12 They have been guilty of various adulterations of truth and good. (2)

13-16 They are destroyed. (3, 15)

17-22 Falsities and evils of every kind are mixed with truths and goods.

23-25 The truth of the Word has been adulterated, (3)

26 also its good; (3)

27-29 likewise the remaining things which, though false and evil, have been made to appear as though they were true and good. (3)

30 Nothing is left over. (3)

31 They will perish in hell. (15)