ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD AND THE CHURCH, AND ITS CORRESPONDENCE, n. 116-131.

The Lord in the Word is called the Bridegroom and Husband, and the church the bride and wife; and the conjunction of the Lord with the church, and the reciprocal conjunction of the church with the Lord, is called a marriage, n. 117.  The Lord is also called a Father, and the church, a mother, n. 118, 119.  The offspring derived from the Lord as a husband and father, and from the church as a wife and mother, are all spiritual; and in the spiritual sense of the Word are understood by sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, and by other names of relations, n. 120.  The spiritual offspring which are born from the Lord’s marriage with the church, are truths and goods; truths, from which are derived understanding, perception, and all thought; and goods, from which are derived love, charity, and all affection, n. 121.  From the marriage of good and truth, which proceeds from the Lord in the way of influx, man receives truth, and the Lord conjoins good thereto; and thus the church is formed by the Lord with man, n. 122-124.  The husband does not represent the Lord, and the wife the church; because both together, the husband and the wife, constitute the church, n. 125.  Therefore there is not a correspondence of the husband with the Lord, and of the wife with the church, in the marriages of the angels in the heavens, and of men on earth, n. 126.  But there is a correspondence with conjugial love, semination, prolification, the love of infants, and similar things which exist in marriages and are derived from them, n. 127.  The Word is the medium of conjunction, because it is from the Lord, and thereby is the Lord, n. 128.  The church is from the Lord, and exists with those who come to him and live according to his precepts, n. 129.  Conjugial love is according to the state of the church, because it is according to the state of wisdom with man, n. 130.  And as the church is from the Lord, conjugial love is also from him, n. 131.

ON THE CHASTE PRINCIPLE AND THE NON-CHASTE, n. 138-156.

The chaste principle and the non-chaste are predicated only of marriages and of such things as relate to marriages, n. 139, 140.  The chaste principle is predicated only of monogamical marriages, or of the marriage of one man with one wife, n. 141.  The Christian conjugial principle alone is chaste, n. 142.  Love truly conjugial is essential chastity, n. 143.  All the delights of love truly conjugial, even the ultimate, are chaste, n. 144.  With those who are made spiritual by the Lord, conjugial love is more and more purified and rendered chaste, n. 145, 146.  The chastity of marriage exists by a total renunciation of whoredoms from a principle of religion, n. 147-149.  Chastity cannot be predicated of infants, or of boys and girls, or of young men and maidens before they feel in themselves a love of the sex, n. 150.  Chastity cannot be predicated of