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Ezekiel 16:9

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9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

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Älteres Paar im Kücheninterieur, by Friedrich Friedländer (1825–1901)

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.

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Arcana Coelestia # 9951

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9951. Verse 41 And with these you shall clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him; and you shall anoint them, and fill their hand, 1 and sanctify them, and they shall serve Me in the priestly office. 'And with these you shall clothe Aaron your brother' means such a state of Divine Good in the spiritual kingdom. 'And his sons with him' means such a state there in the outward things emanating from that [Divine Good]. 'And you shall anoint them' means a representative sign of the Lord in respect of the good of love. 'And fill their hand' means a representative sign of the Lord in respect of the truth of faith. 'And sanctify them' means thus a representative sign of the Lord in respect of the Divine Human. 'And they shall serve Me in the priestly office' means a representative sign of the Lord in respect of all the work of salvation carried out by the Divine Human.

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1. i.e. consecrate them

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.