280. The same is the case with a person's speech. From the sound of his speech angels discern a person's love, from the articulation of the sound his wisdom, and from the sense of the words his knowledge. Moreover they say that these three elements are discerned in every single word, because a word is a kind of containing vessel, having in it sound, articulation, and meaning. I have been told by angels of the third heaven that they perceive from each of a speaker's words in sequence his general state of mind and at the same time some of his particular states. Every single expression in the Word contains some spiritual element relating to Divine wisdom and some celestial element relating to Divine love, and these are perceived by angels when a person reads the Word with reverence, as we showed in many places in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture.