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Whatever the case may be, this Sin, whereby the Evil Angels defected from God, is treated, as our AUTHOR observes, in 2 Peter 2:4, with which passage he wants Jude 6 to be compared; for the comparison of the passages shows with sufficient clarity, that one and the same thing is treated. Now, here in 2 Peter the Angels in a general way are said to have sinned; in Jude they are mentioned in a particular way to be μὴ τηρήσαντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀρχήν, ἀλλὰ ἀπολιπόντες τὸ ἴδιον οἰκητή

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] The fount of Evil is their Fall, Voluntary and Impudent, whereby these Angels defected from God, because they wanted to defect: now, they were able to defect, because they were created muta

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Although they were made Good Mutably: which the Event abundantly showed in their Fall, since we have already evinced that they were not created Evil. Not very long after their Creation they

As every created thing is Metaphysically true, so also in the same sense it is Good; and so, to the extent that those Evil Angels possess real Being, to such an extent they possess Goodness. But it is asked here concerning their Moral Wickedness, whereby they are out of conformity with God and the rule of His most holy Law: Whence did that derive its origin? Our AUTHOR warns that care is to be taken, lest we look for that Wickedness from the very Creation of these Angels:

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[A fundraising update: We are a little more than 30% of the way to our fundraising goal of 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] On § 21 and following , carefully compare VOETIUS, Disputationum theologicarum , part I, pages 906-984, where he discourses concerning the Nature and Operations of Demons

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The Number of Good Angels is exceedingly Great, yet is not precisely known to us ; 1. Neither in itself , although Scripture does indeed wish in a general way to render us more certain of the stupendous multitude of Angels: but either it does not speak necessarily, or even with probability, concerning all Angels together, Matthew 26:53; or it only makes indefinite mention of multiple thousands , Jude 14, or appears to put a certain number for an uncertain, Psalm 68:17; Da

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[A fundraising update: We are 25% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] β. To present to them the Religious Honor of Invocation, etc . That this sort of Worship of Angels everywhere obtained among the Gentiles from the most ancient times, the Most Illustrious ODÉ

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[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] On this controversy consult CALVIN’S Institutes of the Christian Religion , book I, chapter XIV, § 7; SPANHEIM’S Dubia Euangelica , part III, Doubts LXI, LXII, pages 273-279; VOETIUS’ de Angelis Tutelaribus , Disputationum theologicarum , part I, pages 897-905; and ODÉ, who most

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] The Office of the Good Angels is the Ministry of God , the same that belonged of old to all Angels, concerning which above in § 12; but which the Good Angels alone willingly furnish. However, to this is incorrectly referred , 1. The perpetual Prefecture of certain Regions or Men, to ea

[We could use your help: If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project. ] They were not confirmed through the Grace of the Mediator : α. Because Scripture never speaks in this fashion, which assigns Christ as Mediator to Men alone, and never says that He was constituted as Mediator between God and the Angels, 1 Timothy 2:5; Luke 2:10, 11. β. Indeed, Scr

Finally, it remains to respond in a few words to the seventh Question mentioned in § 1, How does the Apostle, in citing this prophecy, reach the goal that he intends? tying verse 14 with what precedes by the logical conjunction διό/ wherefore . In context, Paul addresses believing Ephesians, who were sometimes darkness, but now were made Light in the Lord , verse 8. He had instruct these, in verse 11, καὶ μὴ συγκοινωνεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς ἀκάρποις τοῦ σκότους, μᾶλλον δ