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.

2064. Verse 16 And I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. And I will bless him, and he will become nations; kings of peoples will be from her.

'I will bless her' means the multiplication of truth. 'And I will also give you a son by her means the Rational. 'And I will bless him' means the multiplication of this. 'And he will become nations' means resulting goods. 'Kings of peoples will be from her' means truths that are the product of truths and goods joined together, meant by 'kings and peoples'.