70. Conjugial love comes down from the marriage of good and truth

It became known to me from long experience that no one has conjugial love unless he is in the love of truth from good, and in the love of good by means of truth, that is, in the heavenly marriage; and that he cannot be in any mutual love of good and truth unless he shuns adultery and loathes it like hell. This holds even for those who have lived in marriage in the world and have loved their wife for the sake of cohabitation, the pleasure of life on earth for the sake of children. For celestial things ought to flow into conjugial love, and man comes into his celestial and spiritual things after death, and then becomes completely as he was formerly in that respect; it cannot be otherwise.

Title: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1:Textual Clues

Topic: The Word

Summary: Just as an expert can tell from our eyes or our skin what is going on with our internal organs, it is possible to tell from what is on the surface of Scripture that there is more that lies beneath.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 1:26-27; 2:3-7, 18-22; 9:8-27
Exodus 4:24-27
1 Samuel 17:49-51
2 Kings 11:1-2, 21; 12:1-2, 4, 6-7, 18; 13:1, 9-10, 12, 14, 25; 14:1, 8-9, 11, 13, 17, 23; 15:13, 19
Mark 5:1-8
Acts of the Apostles 20:38; 21:1, 5, 7-8, 18
Revelation 6:15-16; 5:8; 17:9-11
2 Corinthians 3:6, 14-16
Luke 24:27, 44-45