AC 1468-1469 - "He said to Sarai his wife" (Genesis 12:11)

AC 1468
"He said to Sarai his wife"
(Genesis 12:11)
A "wife," in the internal sense of the Word,
signifies nothing else than truth conjoined with good;
for the conjunction of truth with good
is altogether precisely as is a marriage.
In the Word, when a "husband" is mentioned,
the husband signifies good,
and the wife signifies truth;
but when he is not called the husband, but the "man,"
then he signifies truth,
and the wife signifies good:
this is the constant usage in the Word . . ..
It is historically true that Abram so said to his wife,
when journeying into Egypt;
but as before said,
all the historicals of the Word are representative,
and all the words are significative.
No other historicals are recorded in the Word, and in no other order,
and no other words are used to express them,
than such as in the internal sense may express these arcana.

AC 1469
. . . "Sarai," as a wife,
is the truth that was adjoined to the celestial things
which were in the Lord . . ..
. . . the Lord possessed all truth previous to His instruction.
What is celestial has truth with it,
the one being inseparable from the other, as light is from flame;
but this truth was stored up in the Lord's internal man, which was Divine.
The knowledges that He learned are not truths,
but are only recipient vessels;
just as whatever is in a person's memory is by no means truth,
although it is so called;
but the truth is therein, as in vessels.
These vessels were to be formed, or rather to be opened,
by the Lord, through instruction in knowledges from the Word;
not only that celestial things might be insinuated into them,
but also that the celestial things might in this way be made Divine;
for the Lord conjoined the Divine Essence with the Human Essence
in order that His Human things might likewise be made Divine.