Like "say," the word "speak" refers to thoughts and feelings moving from our more internal spiritual levels to our more external ones -- and ultimately from the Lord, who is in a sense the most internal spiritual level of all. This is generally called "influx" and "perception" in the Writings, meaning they are thoughts and feelings that flow in in a complete way from the Lord, rather than being things we have to think about and figure out. On a number of occasions "speak" and "say" are used together; in these cases "speak" refers more to intellectual instruction in matters of thought and "say" refers more to feelings and affections that flow in directly.

6594. 'A hundred and ten years old' means the state at that time. This is clear from the meaning of 'a hundred and ten years' as the state and essential nature of the life of factual knowledge from the internal, dealt with in 6582 - 'years' being states, see 487, 488, 497.