1222. Angelic speech or thought is about inward matters that spirits do not understand unless they have shed gross earthly elements; nor can they grasp them, because the gross earthly elements cling to them, and they consider them to be everything.
1222. Angelic speech or thought is of interior things that spirits do not understand unless they are divested of gross natural things, and they cannot apprehend them because the gross natural things adhere and make them their all.
1222. Angelica loquela, seu cogitatio, est interiorum, quae spiritus non intelligunt, nisi exuti sunt crassis naturalibus, nec possunt capere, quia crassa naturalia adhaerent, et ea faciunt omne eorum.