71. Conjugial love makes man be love

Man is created to be love and consequently wisdom, since the Lord is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. It is by creation that man is an image and likeness of the Lord,Genesis 1:26-27; and this could not happen without true conjugial love. By this man's all can be turned into love, for in marriage either may love from the heart the body too, and thus dispose the soul and consequently everything to the form of love. This is not otherwise possible; the inmost and the outermost there make one and bring about that form, which is the form of heaven.

3423. Verses 19-21 And Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water. And the herdsmen of Gerar disputed with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. And they dug another well and disputed over that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah. 'Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water' means the Word as regards the literal sense, which holds the internal sense within it. 'And the herdsmen of Gerar disputed with Isaac's herdsmen' means that those who taught did not see anything of the sort there, because things in the internal sense appear contrary to those in the literal. 'Saying, The water is ours' means that they possess the truth. 'And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him' means an attitude of denial on account of those things, and also of others, as being contrary to those persons, and on account of more things besides. 'And they dug another well and disputed over that also' means whether the internal sense of the Word even exists. 'And he called the name of it Sitnah' means their essential nature.