And out loud to combine the two remembrances for him, the secret remembrance, which is the remembrance in oneself, and the public remembrance, which is the remembrance in public. The servant in his prayer remembers God in the presence of the angels and whoever is present among the listeners, and this is what he recites out loud in prayer.

He said God Almighty, in the proven report about him, if he mentions me to himself, I remember him to myself, and if he mentions me in a group, I mention him in a better group than him.

He may mean by this the angels who are close to the cherubim, especially those whom he has singled out for his presence. For this virtue, he has prescribed for them to recite loudly and silently in prayer. A servant prayed, and his prayer did not remove from him everything other than it, so he did not pray, and it was not a light in his right. And whoever concealed the recitation within himself and did not see God’s remembrance of him within hims