1753. 'And the share of the men who came with me' means angels. This is clear from what has just been stated, in addition to the fact that when they have appeared to people angels are in the Word called 'men'.

228. How keen the perception of angels is in detecting whether anything entering in is contrary to the truth of faith and to good springing from love defies description. The nature of that which enters in and the point at which it does so they perceive a thousand times better than man does himself, who knows scarcely anything about it. Angels are able to perceive more in the smallest degree of a person's thought than he himself in the largest; this is indeed incredible but absolutely true.