Verse 13. But if any one in the affection of good be without truth or good, and unproductive of either, and yet there is internal association with good, as in the beginning of regeneration, good may still be appropriated; but merely natural affection cannot appropriate good.

1647. The speech of celestial angels is quite distinct and separate from that of spiritual angels, being even more indescribable and beyond words. The things that their thoughts are introduced into are the good and celestial things belonging to ends, and they consequently experience happiness itself. And what is astonishing, their speech is far more abounding since celestial angels are at the very sources and origins of the life of thought and speech.