82. We say that every constituent of the Word contains a marriage of the Lord and the church and so a marriage of goodness and truth, because wherever a marriage of the Lord and the church is found, present there also is a marriage of goodness and truth. Indeed, from the first springs the latter. For when the church or a person of the church is governed by truths, the Lord then flows into those truths with goodness and gives them life. Or in other words, when the church or a person of the church possesses intelligence as a result of truths, then the Lord flows through the goodness of love and charity into that intelligence and so infuses it with life.
