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Chapter 58.—We
Have No Certain Knowledge of the Organization of the Angelic
Society.
Now, what the organization is of
that supremely happy society in heaven: what the differences of
rank are, which explain the fact that while all are called by the
general name angels, as we read in the Epistle to the
Hebrews, “but to which of the angels said God at any time, Sit on
my right hand?”1195
(this form of expression being
evidently designed to embrace all the angels without exception), we
yet find that there are some called archangels; and whether
the archangels are the same as those called hosts, so that
the expression, “Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him,
all His hosts,”1196
is the same as if it had been
said, “Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His
archangels;” and what are the various significations of those
four names under which the apostle seems to embrace the whole
heavenly company without exception, “whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers:”1197
—let those who are able answer
these questions, if they can also prove their answers to be true;
but as for me, I confess my ignorance. I am not even certain upon
this point: whether the sun, and the moon, and all the stars, do
not form part of this same society, though many consider them
merely luminous bodies, without either sensation or
intelligence.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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