Verse 10. But when you enter into this interior state, and the soul is imbued with those heavenly feelings and faculties with which it will be endowed by the Divine Love and Wisdom, and the Lord gives you victory over the evils and falses which have formerly infested you, so that you are relieved from the inroads of evil spirits into the soul,

144. As to 'calling by name' meaning recognizing their nature, it must be realized that the ancients understood nothing else by 'a name than the essential nature of a real thing, and by 'seeing and calling them by name' recognizing the nature of such. This was why they gave their sons and daughters names in keeping with the things that were meant by them; for there was something unique to every name, as a means of knowing the origin and nature of those children, as will also be seen later on where, in the Lord's Divine mercy, the twelve sons of Jacob are dealt with. Since therefore a name embodied a person's origin and nature nothing else was meant by 'calling by name'. This manner of speaking was customary among them; but anyone who does not understand is sure to wonder whether they do have these meanings.