AC 8904 - Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

AC 8904 [1,2]

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
(Exodus 20:13)

That this signifies that those things
which are of the doctrine of faith and of charity
are not to be perverted,
thus that the Word is not to be applied
to confirm falsities and evils,
also that the laws of order are not to be upset . . ..

The reason, which at this day is a secret one,
is that conjugial love descends from
the marriage of good and truth,
which is called "the heavenly marriage."
The love which flows in from the Lord
and which exists between good and truth in heaven,
is turned into conjugial love on the earth,
and this by correspondence.
 Hence it is that the falsification of truth is "whoredom,"
and the perversion of good is "adulteration,"
in the internal sense.
Hence also it is
that they who are not in the good and truth of faith
cannot be in genuine conjugial love;
and also that those
who find the delight of life in adulteries
can no longer receive anything of faith.
I have heard it said by the angels
that as soon as anyone commits adultery on the earth
and takes delight in it,
heaven is closed to him,
that is, he refuses any longer to receive from heaven
anything of faith and charity.
That at this day in the kingdoms where the church is,
adulteries are made light of by very many persons,
is because the church is at its end,
and thus there is no longer any faith,
because there is no charity;
for the one corresponds to the other.
Where there is no faith,
falsity is in the place of truth,
and evil is in the place of good,
and from this there flows the result
that adulteries are no longer accounted as criminal;
for when heaven is closed with a man,
such things flow in from hell.