476. That by “male and female” is signified the marriage between faith and love was declared and proved above, where it was shown that the male or man [vir] signifies the understanding and whatever belongs to it, consequently everything of faith; and that the female or woman signifies the will, or the things appertaining to the will, consequently whatever has relation to love; wherefore she was called Eve, a name signifying life, which is of love alone. By the female therefore is also signified the church, as has been previously shown; and by the male, a man [vir] of the church. The subject here is the state of the church when it was spiritual, and which was afterwards made celestial, wherefore “male” is mentioned before “female” as also inchapter 1. The expression to “create” also has reference to the spiritual man but afterwards when the marriage has been effected, that is, when the church has been made celestial, it is not said “male and female” but “man [homo]” who, by reason of their marriage, signifies both; wherefore it presently follows, “and He called their name Man” by which is signified the church.