The Phantom World

ood angels are frequently mentioned

mistress; those who appeared to Jacob, on his journey into Mesopotamia, ascending and descending the mysterious ladder;[7] he who taught him how to cause his sheep to bring forth young differently marked;[8] he who wrestled with Jacob on his return from Mesopotamia,[9]-were angels of light, and benevolent ones; the same as he who spoke with Moses from the burning bush on Horeb,[10] and who gave him the tables of

, that it was the angel Michael. He who showed himself to the wife of Manoah,[15] the father of Samson, and afterwards to Manoah himself. He who announced to Gideon that he should

ted as having before his throne[20] seven principal angels, always ready to execute his orders, and four cherubim singing his praises, and adoring his sovereign holiness; the whole making a sort of a

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en. i

n. xvi

Gen.

en. x

n. xxv

. xxxi.

en. x

od. iii

xod. i

mb. xxi

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Josh.

Judge

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viii. 16

Tob

. v. 9, 1

xvii. 10; l

i. Zech. iv.