Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 429

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429. (v) Hence scortatory love is the opposite of conjugial love, just as hell is the opposite of heaven.

All in hell are subject to the pairing of evil and falsity, and all in heaven are subject to the marriage of good and truth; and since the pairing of evil and falsity is also adultery (as shown just above in 427, 428), it is also hell. Hence it is that all there are subject to the lust, wantonness and indecency of scortatory love; and they run from and shudder at the chastity and decency of conjugial love (see 425 above). These facts allow it to be seen that these two loves, scortatory and conjugial, are opposites, just as hell is the opposite of heaven and heaven of hell.


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