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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 decide what the lower orders carry out

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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 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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