What Are Dominions Angels, and What Is Their Role in Christian Angelology?
Named in Colossians 1:16 and Ephesians 1:21, ranked fourth by Pseudo-Dionysius, and read by Aquinas as the angels who…
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Biblical Angels
Hierarchy
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What Are Powers Angels, and How Do Scripture and Later Traditions Differ?
Paul's word exousiai, the sixth of the nine choirs, and why Orthodox lists call this rank the Authorities
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What Are Seraphim, and What Do They Do in Isaiah 6?
Isaiah's six-winged attendants, the serpent word behind their name, their first place among the nine choirs, and what…
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What Are Virtues Angels, and What Is Their Role in the Angelic Hierarchy?
Their Greek name, dynamis, is also the Gospels' word for a miracle, and Gregory the Great made the virtues the angels…
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What Are the Thrones Angels, and Are They Ezekiel's Wheels?
Paul names them once, Pseudo-Dionysius gave them a rank, and the picture of eyed wheels was attached to them much later
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What Do Principalities Rule Over in Biblical Tradition?
Paul's archai, Daniel's princes of Persia and Greece, and how later theology gave one choir the government of nations
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What Does 'Angel' Actually Mean as a Messenger in Scripture?
Mal'akh and angelos name a job rather than a kind of being: how the Bible uses them for envoys, prophets and heavenly…
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What Is the Archangels Choir, and How Does It Fit the Angelic Hierarchy?
Two New Testament verses, one rank in Pseudo-Dionysius, and lists of named archangels that run from one to eight
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