Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 465

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465. [verse 1] 'And I saw another angel, a strong one, coming down out of heaven' signifies the Lord in Divine Majesty and Power. That the 'angel' here is the Lord is plain from the description of Him, as being encompassed with a cloud, a rainbow overhead, His face as the sun, His feet as pillars of fire, and that He kept His feet upon the sea and the land; as also that He cried out as a lion roars, and uttered speech as thunder. He was seen as an angel because when He manifests Himself in the heavens and below the heavens He appears as an angel. For He fills some angel with His Divine accommodated to the reception of those to whom He grants the seeing of Him. His presence itself, such as He is in Himself or His own Essence, is not sustained by any angel, much less by any man; and therefore He appears above the heavens as the Sun, which is distant from angels as the sun of the world is from men. There He is in His Divine from eternity and at the same time in His Divine Human, which, as soul and body, are a one. He is here called 'a strong angel' by reason of Divine power; and is termed 'another angel' on account of this, that here is described a Divine of His other than the former.


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