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 truth may flow in, and by its operation upon our wills, and its contending with our evils, and casting them out, prepare our affections for the inflowing of the divine love; and thus, by the Lord's assistance, bring the will and the understanding into marriage union. It is said that on the third day there was a marriage. Now in the human mind, no marriage can take place, except on the third day; because the number three denotes a full state, whether natural, or spiritual, or celestial, according to the subject treated of. If, as in the present instance, the state is natural, then the marriage takes place in Cana of Galilee. Galilee was in the northern part of the land of Judea; it was called Galilee of the Gentiles, and its inhabitants were representative of those who are remote from the truth, but who really desire to be instructed in it, and who, consequently, are in the love of it; and it is to those who desire the truth that the Lord can manifest his glory. Our Saviour is no respecter of persons; but He seeks out those that are afar off, in order that His presence may instruct and bless them. The desire of these Galileans, it appears, was, that Jesus and his disciples should be called to the marriage. The mother of Jesus was already there. Here, by the mother of Jesus, is denoted the affection of truth; for Jesus Himself is essential truth: and we may be sure that, even in our natural states, that state which may be called Galilean, there can be no real marriage, no union of faith and practice, unless Jesus and His disciples are present; for, by Jesus and His disciples is implied the Lord Himself, as the word with all the truths thereof. The union of natural or moral good with truth, will always be productive of a life of moral