Angels serve us by office and so know our repentance; nothing shows the dead have that office. Pars Secunda closes
It is no wonder that angels, who are "ministering spirits sent to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation" (Hebrews 1:14), know what concerns us, above all the repentance and conversion of sinners, which they are commanded by God to help bring about. Their office keeps them with us and about us. But, as we have already said, it cannot be shown from God's word that God has entrusted a like office to the blessed souls of the just.
Nor is Christ's saying that the just will be "equal to the angels" in heaven to the point. That equality or likeness to the angels must not be stretched beyond Christ's purpose, which is to teach that after the resurrection the just will live the life of angels, in that they will no longer be subject to the needs and weaknesses of this life and will neither marry nor be given in marriage, as anyone who reads Christ's words in Matthew can see (Matthew 22:30).
Further, when Christ says in general terms that there is joy among the angels over the conversion of one sinner, it does not follow that each angel knows each man's thoughts and hears his prayers. In the same way we can truly say that there is great joy in the Church of God when one sinner turns to God, and yet it does not follow that every member of the Church knows the thoughts, words and deeds of all the others.
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CI. Sed mirum non est Angelos qui sunt spiritus administratorii in ministerium missi propter eos qui haereditatem capient salutis, cum ex officio nobis adsint, & circa nos versentur, ea scire quae ad nos attinent, & in primis peccatorum poenitentiam & conversionem, cui procurandae ex Dei mandato inserviunt: sed ut jam diximus, munus simile beatis justorum animabus a Deo demandatum esse, ex Dei verbo ostendi non potest. Neque huc facit quod affirmat Christus justos in caelo fore ἰσαγγέλους. Haec enim cum Angelis aequalitas seu similitudo extendi non debet ultra Christi scopum; qui est docere justos post resurrectionem vitam ducturos Angelicam, quatenus hujus vitae necessitatibus & infirmitatibus non amplius subjacebunt, & neque uxorem ducent, neque nuptui dabuntur, ut legenti verba Christi apud Matthaeum planum est. Adde, quod non sequitur, singulos Angelos singulorum hominum cogitationes nosse, & vota percipere, ex eo quod Christus indefinite dicit Angelis gaudium esse propter conversionem unius peccatoris. Sicut vere dicere possumus in Ecclesia Dei gaudium magnum esse, quum peccator unus ad Deum convertitur; Nec tamen inde sequitur singulis qui in Ecclesia sunt, aliorum omnium cogitata, dicta & facta nota esse. Heb. 1. 13.