Wednesday, August 14, 2024

DLIFE 74, 75, 76 - Can someone be in adultery and still love marriage?

DLIFE 74

To "commit adultery,"  . . .
means in the natural sense,
not only to commit whoredom,
but also to do obscene things,
to speak lascivious things,
and to think about filthy things.
But in the spiritual sense to "commit adultery"
means to adulterate the goods of the Word,
and to falsify its truths.
In the highest sense to "commit adultery" means
to deny the divinity of the Lord,
and to profane the Word.
These are the "adulteries of every kind."

DLIFE 75

That in proportion as anyone shuns adultery,
in the same proportion he loves marriage;
or what is the same,
in proportion as anyone shuns
the lasciviousness of adultery,
in the same proportion he loves
the chastity of marriage,
is because the lasciviousness of adultery
and the chastity of marriage
are two opposite things,
and therefore
in proportion as anyone is not in the one,
he is in the other.

DLIFE 76

No one can know
the nature of the chastity of marriage
except the person who shuns as a sin
the lasciviousness of adultery.
For a person may know that in which he is,
but cannot know that in which he is not.
. . . The truth is
that the lasciviousness of adultery
and the chastity of marriage
stand toward each other
exactly as do hell and heaven,
and that the lasciviousness of adultery
makes hell in a person,
and the chastity of marriage makes heaven.

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