34. (19) Conjugial love depends upon the wife's love, and such too is the husband's love reciprocally; the wife's love does not depend on her husband's love. The reason is that just as the will acts on the understanding, good acts on truth; that is why it is said that a man ought to cleave to his wife. The reverse is true of those who are not in conjugial love.

2929. 'He spoke to them, saying' means thought and perception concerning those people. This is clear from the meaning of 'speaking and saying' as thinking and perceiving, dealt with in 1898, 1919, 2080, 2271, 2287, 2506, 2515, 2552, 2619.