#of angels

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 13:1 (ESV) - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

[inescutcheon]

“Angels in early times are male, and are generally (but not always) represented as winged. During the Middle Ages there was much discussion about whether they had bodies at all. If they did, of what were these bodies made? According to some, their bodies were formed of fire and ice. The apparent contradiction of these materials thus set angels apart as defying the laws of physics. We recently saw just such an admixture of fire and ice in clouds of volcanic ash, though without it appearing to generate any new clouds of angels! According to others, their bodies were of ‘subtle substance’, suggesting something other than normal matter, and, if this was the case, did they actually occupy space? If so, did they occupy a particular place singly, one at a time, or could many of them crowd together and, as the saying goes, ‘dance on the head of a very fine needle without jostling one another’? This question has often been considered as the quintessence of pointless discussion ascribed to scholastic theologians of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In fact, it seems instead to have been thought up by the satirical writer François Rabelais in France (Pantagruel, 1532), picked up by the philosopher Ralph Cudworth in the seventeenth century, and then repeated by Isaac D’Israeli in his Curiosities of Literature, of 1791. Thomas Aquinas (1225–74), an original scholastic, asks much more reasonably, ‘Whether a multiplicity of angels can co-exist in the same place?’"

Valery Rees. “From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels.”

[momokikis]

KENNY'S "WHY DID I AGREE TO THIS" IS WHAT I BREATHE NOW

[gavrele-a]

Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t think that there really are only 11 angels left alive.

Naomi told Cas that ‘there are nine angels left in Heaven, present company included, and one maybe two on Earth’.

I don’t think she counted Gabriel in that, I think she did count Lucifer as one of the angels in Heaven though, unless he isn’t up there and she didn’t count him too, and she obviously forgot about the archangel trapped in Hell.

So, really, there are about 13/14 angels left alive.

I think.

Either way, Gabriel and Castiel are still part of an endangered species now.

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 13:1 (NET Bible) - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT) - If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

[wiirocku]

1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT) - If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.