It is true that we know not what may be the food of angels who are substances which are purely spiritual, nor what became of that food which Raphael and the angels that Abraham entertained in his tent, took, or seemed to take, in the company of men. But there are so many other things in nature which are unknown and incomprehensible to us, that we may very well console ourselves for not knowing how it is that the apparitions of angels, demons, and disembodied souls are made to appear.
Footnotes:
[[441]] Gen. xviii.
[[442]] Tob. xii. 19.
[[443]] M. Lock. de Intellectu Human. lib. iv. c. 3.
[[444]] Tob. xii. 18, 19.