AE 1142 - pairs

AE 1142
. . . everywhere in the Word there is a marriage of truth and good,
and for the reason that truth is not truth
unless it looks to good or proceeds from good,
and good is not good
unless it looks to truths or exists through truths.
Thus truths and goods are joined as in a marriage,
and truths and goods exist as from a marriage.
This is why here and elsewhere in the Word things are mentioned in pairs,
one of which signifies good and the other truth,
as "gold and silver,"
"precious stone and pearl,"
"fine linen and purple,"
"silk and scarlet,"
"vessel of ivory and vessel of precious wood,"
"brass, iron, and marble,"
where "gold, pearl, purple, scarlet, precious wood, and brass,"
signify goods of various kinds,
and "silver, precious stone, fine linen, silk, ivory, iron, and marble,"
signify truths of various kinds.