Husband
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.
Isaiah 32
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Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
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A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
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The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
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The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
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The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
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For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
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Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
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For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.
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Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
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Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
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Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
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For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
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Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
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Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
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The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
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My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
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Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
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Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
