Herein we continue, from part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, considering info on Angels in Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373 AD). The fuller complete result consists of quotations of those sections within the text that refer to Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Devil, Satan, demons, serpent and dragon. The point is not to elucidate these references but to provide relevant partial quotations and citations. See my section on Angels here, Cherubim and Seraphim here, Satan here and Demons here.
Angels in Athanasius of Alexandria’s De Synodis / The Synod, Ad Afros Epistola Synodica / To the African Bishop Synod and Historia Acephala.
De Synodis / The Synod
18 And the blessed David too in several of the Psalms, invites, not Angels alone, but Powers also to praise God.
28 And that the Son Himself and our Lord and God, took flesh, that is, a body, that is, man, from Mary the Virgin, as the Angel preached beforehand; and as all the Scriptures teach, and especially the Apostle himself, the doctor of the Gentiles, Christ took man of Mary the Virgin, through which He has suffered.
35 And not, ‘who generates,’ but ‘who makes His Angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.’
48 Now as to its consisting in agreement of doctrines, and in the Son’s not disagreeing with the Father, as the Arians say, such an interpretation is a sorry one; for both the Saints, and still more Angels and Archangels, have such an agreement with God, and there is no disagreement among them.
49 And on the Father Angels wait, and again the Son too is worshipped by them, ‘And let all the Angels of God worship Him;’ and He is said to be Lord of Angels, for ‘the Angels ministered unto Him,’ and ‘the Son of Man shall send His Angels.’
Ad Afros Epistola Synodica / To the African Bishop Synod
7 But that originate things are changeable, no one can deny, seeing that Angels transgressed, Adam disobeyed, and all stand in need of the grace of the Word.
Historia Acephala
IX Be pleased to hear that the Son is like the Father in His operations; like as Angels cannot comprehend the Nature of Archangels, let them please to understand, nor Archangels the Nature of a Cherubin, nor Cherubins the Nature of the Holy Spirit, nor the Holy Spirit the Nature of the Only-begotten, nor the Only-begotten the nature of the Unbegotten God.
In the next segment, we will consider Athanasius on Demons.
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