45. Correspondences, by which the Word, as to each and all things of it, has been written, possess such force and strength that it may be called the force and strength of Divine Omnipotence; for through these correspondences the natural acts conjointly with the spiritual, and the spiritual with the natural, thus everything of heaven with everything of the world. Thence it is that the two sacraments are correspondences of spiritual with natural things; thence is their strength and power.