SS 81 & 82 - there is a marriage in the Word

SS 81-82

As there is such a marriage in each and every thing of the Word,

there frequently occur in it

two expressions that appear like repetitions of the same thing.

They however are not repetitions,

for one of them has reference to good and the other to truth,

and both taken together effect a conjunction of good and truth,

and thus form one thing.

From this too comes the Divinity of the Word and its holiness,

for in every Divine work

good is conjoined with truth and truth with good.

It is said that in each and every thing of the Word

there is a marriage of the Lord and the church

and a derivative marriage of good and truth,

because wherever there is a marriage of the Lord and the church

there is also a marriage of good and truth,

for the latter is from the former.

For when the church or person of the church is in truths,

the Lord inflows into his truths with good, and vivifies them.

Or what is the same,

when through truths

the church or person of the church is in intelligence,

the Lord inflows into his intelligence

through the good of love and of charity,

and thus pours life into it.