9601. And the breadth four cubits. That this signifies the marriage of truth with good, is evident from the signification of “breadth,” as being truth (see n. 1613, 3433, 3434, 4482, 9487); and from the signification of “four,” as being conjunction, thus marriage, for the conjunction of truth and good is called the heavenly marriage (n. 2173, 2618, 2728, 2729, 2803). “Four” denotes conjunction or marriage because this number arises from two multiplied by itself, and “two” denotes conjunction (n. 5194, 8423); and because multiplied numbers have a similar signification to that of the simple numbers of which they are compounded (as was said just above, n. 9600 That all numbers in the Word signify real things, may be seen in the passages cited in n. 9488)

2729. That genuine conjugial love is from this, may be seen from the fact that no one can be in it unless he is in the good of truth and the truth of good from the Lord; also from the fact that heavenly blessedness and happiness is in that love; and they who are in it all come into heaven, or into the heavenly marriage. Also from the fact that when angels are conversing about the union of good and truth, there is then presented among good spirits in the lower sphere a representative of marriage; but among evil spirits a representative of adultery. Hence it is that in the Word the union of good and truth is called “marriage;” but the adulteration of good and the falsification of truth, “adultery” and “whoredom” (see n. 2466).