788. For they retain everything they had drawn with them from the world. These are resources with which they have been gifted only by the Lord; so that by putting on clothes, this process is portrayed, whereby from being angels, they can thus be reduced to spirits.
788. For they retain all that they brought with them from the world. They are only faculties bestowed by the Lord; thus by the putting on of garments, such things are represented. Thus can they be reduced from angels to spirits.
788. Retinent enim omnia quae secum a 1
mundo traxerunt, sunt modo facultates a Domino donatae, sic per induere vestes ea repraesentantur, ab angelis sic reduci possunt ad spiritus.
Footnotes:
1. This is how it appears in J.F.I. Tafel's edition; the Manuscript has forte e