11/20/2023 0 Comments Angel messenger bible![]() ![]() This cannot be understood of the wind and lightning, and of God's making these his messengers and ministers to do his will for such a sense is not suitable to the scope of the psalm, from whence they are taken, nor to the order of the words in which they stand for it is not said he makes spirits, or winds, his angels, and flaming fire his ministers, but the reverse and is contrary to the design of the apostle in citing them, which is to show the superiority of Christ to angels, of whom it is said, that they are made spirits: they are "spirits", created ones, and so differ from God the Creator: they are incorporeal ones, and so differ from men they are immaterial, and so die not they are spiritual substances subsisting in themselves: and they are "made" such by God the Father, and by the Son the Lord Jesus Christ, within the six days of the creation, and all at once for it is not to be supposed that the Lord is daily making them and this proves the Son to be God, as well as more excellent than the angels unless this is to be understood of the daily disposal of them in providence, in causing winds, thunder, lightning, and the like. Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire: ![]() Or "to the angels", as in the following verse, "to the Son", which stands opposed to this and the words said to them, or of them, are found in ( Psalms 104:4 )
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