{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110759.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110759.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110759.htm","text":"Of the fact that it is not without reason that the names of angels and archangels are given to holy and heavenly powers.\nFor no one doubts that not without cause or reason are the same titles of rank assigned to the better sort, and that they are names of office and of worth or dignity, for it is plain that they are termed angels, i.e., messengers from their office of bearing messages, and the appropriateness of the name teaches that they are \u201carchangels\u201d because they preside over angels, \u201cdominions\u201d because they hold dominion over certain persons, and \u201cprincipalities\u201d because they have some to be princes over, and \u201cthrones\u201d because they are so near to God and so privy and close to Him that the Divine Majesty specially rests in them as in a Divine throne, and in a way reclines surely on them.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}