10651. 'And you take their daughters for your sons' means affections for evil linked to truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking', when it refers to marriage, as being linked to; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections for good, and in the contrary sense as affections for evil, dealt with in 2362, 3963; and from the meaning of 'sons' as truths, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 3373, 4257, 9807, 10490.

2892. The state of one who leads a good life and who believes that the Lord governs the universe, and that He alone is the source of everything good that flows from love and charity, and of everything true that is a matter of faith, and indeed that He is the source of all life - thus the state of one who believes that 'in Him we live, and move, and have our being' - is such that he can have heavenly freedom conferred on him, and with that freedom peace as well. For he trusts solely in the Lord and has no anxious cares about all else; he is quite sure that all things work for his good, blessedness, and happiness for ever. But one who believes that he governs himself is constantly agitated, being carried along into evil desires, into anxious cares about things of the future, and thus into a vast number of anxieties. And such being his belief, evil desires and false persuasions also cling to him.