William Henry Bennett

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2 — Angel
Author: William Henry Bennett

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2 — Angel”, published in 1911, is a work by William Henry Bennett. It explores elements such as angels, Yahweh and Apocalypse.

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ The function of the angels is that of the supernatural servants of God, His agents and representatives; the Angel of Yahweh, as we have seen, is a manifestation of God. In old times, the bnē Elohim and the seraphim are His court, and the angels are alike the court and the army of God; the cherubim are his throne-bearers. In his dealings with men, the angels, as their name implies, are specially His messengers, declaring His will and executing His commissions. Through them he controls nature and man. They are the guardian angels of the nations ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ Religious thought about the angels during the middle ages was much influenced by the theory of the angelic hierarchy set forth in the De Hierarchia Celesti, written in the 5th century in the name of Dionysius the Areopagite and passing for his. The creeds and confessions do not formulate any authoritative doctrine of angels; and modern rationalism has tended to deny the existence of such beings, or to regard the subject as one on which we can have no certain knowledge. The principle of continuity, however, seems to require the existence of beings intermediate between man and God. ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ So, too, the angels are styled “holy ones,” [2] and “watchers,” [3] and are spoken of as the “host of heaven” [4] or of “Yahweh.” [5] The “hosts,” צְבֶאוֹת‎ Sebāōth in the title Yahweh Sebaoth, Lord of Hosts, were probably at one time identified with the angels. [6] The New Testament often speaks of “spirits,” πνεύματα. [7] In the earlier periods of the religion of Israel, the doctrine of monotheism had not been formally stated, so that the idea of “angel” in the modern sense does not occur, but we find the Mal’akh Yahweh, Angel of the Lord, or Mal’akh Elohim, Angel of God. ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ In polytheism the grades of superhuman beings are continuous; but in monotheism there is a sharp distinction of kind, as well as degree, between God on the one hand, and all other superhuman beings on the other; the latter are the “angels.” ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ In Tobit, too, we find the idea of the demon or evil angel. In the canonical Old Testament angels may inflict suffering as ministers of God, and Satan may act as accuser or tempter; but they appear as subordinate to God, fulfilling His will ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ Naturally angels are most prominent in the Apocalypse. The New Testament takes little interest in the idea of the angelic hierarchy, but there are traces of the doctrine. The distinction of good and bad angels is recognized ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ In the later development of the religion of Israel, ’Elohim is almost entirely reserved for the one true God; but in earlier times ’Elohīm (gods) , bnē ’Elohim, bnē Elim (sons of gods, i.e. members of the class of divine beings) were general terms for superhuman beings. Hence they came to be used collectively of superhuman beings, distinct from Yahweh, and therefore inferior, and ultimately subordinate. ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ The guardian angels of the nations in Daniel probably represent the gods of the heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by Milton in Paradise Lost. The development of the doctrine of an organized hierarchy of angels belongs to the Jewish literature of the period 200 B.C. to A.D. 100. In Jewish apocalypses especially, the imagination ran riot on the rank, classes and names of angels ”

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William Henry Bennett, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2… (1911)

“ Asc. of Isaiah, iv. 18; Slav. Enoch, iv. 1. ↑ Rev. xiv. 18, xvi. 5; possibly Gal. iv. 3; Col. ii. 8, 20. ↑ Ps. lxviii. 17; Dan. vii. 10. ↑ Matt. xviii. 10; Acts xii. 15. ↑ Gal. iii. 19; Heb. ii. 2; LXX. of Deut. xxxiii. 2. ”

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