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Genesis 1:27

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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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Marriage #34

  
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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.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #10714

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10714. EXODUS CHAPTER 35.

TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY AND FAITH

There are two realities which constitute a person's life - love and faith. Love constitutes the life of a person's will, and faith the life of his understanding; consequently what a person's love and faith are like determine what his life is like.

  
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