This can be established in many ways, but as an example let just this [suffice]: if I speak with them only in these words, "it is so or so," or "it is thus or otherwise," without adding any other words, provided the rest are conveyed by a mental image or symbolic portrayal, they at once grasp the whole idea and thought. So they do in other instances, from only a few words. The rest is displayed to them by idea, thus without words, by a spiritual mental image. This shows how much there is in the words of the Lord's Word and how complete is the mental imagery, while so few are the words, which are sometimes not at all understandable without mental imagery that is not patent to the eyes of an earthly human.