2665. 'Everything which Sarah says to you, hearken to her voice' means that He was to act in accordance with spiritual truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Sarah' as the Divine spiritual or Divine Truth, dealt with in 2622, and from the meaning of 'hearkening to the voice' as acting in accordance with that Truth, dealt with in 2542. But as to what is meant by acting in accordance with spiritual truth, an intelligible explanation of this to others is less easy than the perception of it by those who know the internal sense. Consequently any statement made according to the way in which the latter perceive what is meant could hardly be recognized. And there is the further reason that more arcana have first to be brought out into the open and indeed to be believed before the matter can be explained and then enter into the ideas that constitute his belief. What it means in a general way can be described to some extent, namely that the Lord arrived at a conclusion from the Divine Human, and acted according to it, and so from His own power. For it was by means of Divine Truth that He united the Human to the Divine, and by means of Divine Good that He united the Divine to the Human. Regarding this reciprocal union, see 2004.

2173. That 'Sarah' here is the Lord as regards truth is clear from the representation of 'Sarah' as intellectual truth allied to good, and here as rational truth, for the same reason as has just been stated in reference to 'Abraham'; for 'Sarah' represents truth, see what has been stated already in 1468, 1901, 2063, 2065. In the historical sections of the Word good and truth cannot be represented by anything other than a marriage, for they go together as two that are married. Indeed a Divine Marriage exists between celestial and spiritual things, or what amounts to the same, between the things of love and those of faith; or what still amounts to the same, between things of the will and those of the understanding. Those of the will are forms of good, those of the understanding forms of truth. Such a marriage exists in the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and such also exists in the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. Such a marriage exists in every individual, and in each part of him, indeed in the most individual parts of all. That which does not have its existence within such a marriage has no life. Indeed from this Divine Marriage such a marriage exists in the entire natural order and in each individual part of it - though it does so under a different shape and form - otherwise nothing would ever continue to exist there. Because such a marriage exists in each individual part, everything is described in the Prophets, especially in Isaiah, by a pair of expressions. The one expression has to do with that which is celestial or with good, the other with that which is spiritual or with truth, dealt with in 683, 793, 801. As regards the likeness of a marriage being present in every individual part, see 718, 747, 917, 1432. This explains why 'Abraham' represents the Lord's good, and 'Sarah' His truth.