380. [verse 15] 'By reason of this they are before the throne of God, and are serving Him day and night in His temple, and the One sitting upon the throne shall remain over them' signifies that they are in the presence of the Lord, and are living constantly and faithfully in accordance with the truths that they are receiving from Him in His Church, and that the Lord is continually imparting good to their truths. 'By reason of this they are before the throne of God' signifies that they are in the presence of the Lord; 'and are serving Him day and night' signifies that they are living constantly and faithfully in accordance with the truths, that is, the commandments that they are receiving from Him; nothing else being signified by 'to serve the Lord'. 'In His temple' signifies in the Church (n. 191); 'the One sitting upon the throne shall remain over them' signifies that the Lord is continually imparting good to the truths that they are receiving from Him. This is signified by 'to remain over them' because in the Word 'to remain' is predicated of good, and 'to serve' of truth. At this point this arcanum must be disclosed: that the marriage of the Lord with the Church consists in this, that the Lord inflows with angels and men with the good of love, and that angels and men receive Him or the good of His love in truths; that by this means the marriage of good and truth is effected, this marriage being the Church itself, and making heaven with them. Because the Lord's influx and the reception of Him is such, therefore the Lord looks at angels and men in the forehead and they look back at the Lord through the eyes; for the forehead corresponds to the good of love and the eyes correspond to the truths out of that good, which by a conjunction in this manner become truths of good. The Lord's influx with truths, however, with angels and men is not as the influx of good with them, for it is a mediated flowing forth out of good, as light out of fire, and it is received by them with the understanding, and with the will only so far as they do the truths. This then is the marriage of love and wisdom or of good and truth from the Lord with the recipients in the heavens and on earth (in terris). This arcanum has been disclosed so that it may be known how it is to be understood that the Lord is continually imparting good to their truths.