Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect…

Mortimer Adler
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Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God. ✨ Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). The angels and us, Scribner
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