170-176).
{Footnote 1} The celestial angels know innumerable things, and
are immeasurably wiser than the spiritual angels (n. 2718). The
celestial angels do not think and talk from faith, as the
spiritual angels do, for they have from the Lord a perception
of all things that constitute faith (n. 202, 597, 607, 784,
1121, 1384, 1442, 1898, 1919, 7680, 7877, 8780, 9277, 10336).
In regard to the truths of faith they say only "Yea, yea, or
Nay, nay," while the spiritual angels reason about whether a
thing is true (n. 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786, where the
Lord's words, "Let your discourse be Yea, yea, Nay nay" (Matt.
5:37), are explained).
271. Such are the angels of the third heaven because they are in love
to the Lord, and that love opens the interiors of the mind to the
third degree, and is a receptacle of all things of wisdom. It must be
understood also that the angels of the inmost heaven are still being
continually perfected in wisdom, and this differently from the angels
of the outmost heaven. The angels of the inmost heaven do not store
up Divine truths in the memory and thus make out of them a kind of
science; but as soon as they hear them they perceive them and apply
them to the life.
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