Herein we continue, from part 1, part 2, part 3, part , part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, considering info on Angels in Augustine of Hippo (354-430 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 Augustine of Hippo’s The City of God, Book XX.
Chapter 1 Yea, He was certainly exercising judgment also when He did not spare the Angels who sinned, whose prince, overcome by envy, seduced men after being himself seduced.
Chapter 5 should have no throne of judgment; but he unmistakeably considers himself to be included in the number of the judges when he says, “Do you not know that we shall judge Angels?”…I shall now cite from the Gospel according to Matthew the passage which speaks of the separation of the good from the wicked by the most efficacious and final judgment of Christ: “When the Son of man,” he says, “shall come in His glory, . . . then shall He say also unto them on His left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his Angels.”
Chapter 7 For the Apostle John says in the foresaid book, “And I saw an Angel come down from heaven. . . . Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years”…It was then for the binding of this strong one that the apostle saw in the Apocalypse “an Angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a chain in his hand…”
Chapter 8 But when the short time comes he shall be loosed. For he shall rage with the whole force of himself and his Angels for three years and six months; and those with whom he makes war shall have power to withstand all his violence and stratagems.
Chapter 9 And from the Church those reapers shall gather out the tares which He suffered to grow with the wheat till the harvest, as He explains in the words “The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the Angels. As therefore the tares are gathered together and burned with fire, so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send His Angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all offenses.”
Chapter 14 Shall there be present as many Angels as men, and shall each man hear his life recited by the Angel assigned to him?
Chapter 15 After saying, “They were judged every man according to their works,” he briefly added what the judgment was: “Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire;” by these names designating the devil and the whole company of his Angels, for he is the author of death and the pains of hell. For this is what he had already, by anticipation, said in clearer language: “The devil who seduced them was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone.”
Chapter 21 But because there shall thence flow, even upon Earthly bodies, the peace of incorruption and immortality, therefore he says that He shall flow down as this river, that He may as it were pour Himself from things above to things beneath, and make men the equals of the Angels…By His chariots (for the word is plural) we suitably understand the ministration of Angels…offering to the Lord on beasts of burden and waggons (which are understood to mean the aids furnished by God in the shape of Angelic or human ministry), to the holy city Jerusalem, which at present is scattered over the Earth, in the faithful saints.
Chapter 25 Possibly, too, “He shall call the heaven,” may mean, He shall call the Angels in the high and lofty places, that He may descend with them to do judgment; and “He shall call the Earth also” would then mean, He shall call the men on the Earth to judgment…Then he turns to address the Angels: “Gather His saints together unto Him.” For certainly a matter so important must be accomplished by the ministry of Angels. And if we ask who the saints are who are gathered unto Him by the Angels, we are told, “They who make a covenant with Him over sacrifices.”
Chapter 25 The prophet Malachi or Malachias, who is also called Angel, and is by some (for Jerome tells us that this is the opinion of the Hebrews) identified with Ezra the priest, others of whose writings have been received into the canon, predicts the last judgment, saying, “Behold, He comes, says the Lord Almighty; and who shall abide the day of His entrance? . . . for I am the Lord your God, and I change not.”
In the next segment, we will consider more on Angels in Augustine of Hippo.
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