Psalms 104:4
He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
BSB
ASV
Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;
KJV
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Who maketh his angels spirits,.... The angels are spirits, or spiritual substances, yet created ones; and so differ from God, who is a spirit, and from the Holy Spirit of God, who are Creators and not creatures; angels are spirits without bodies, and so differ from the souls or spirits of men, and are immaterial, and so die not; these are made by Christ, by whom all things are made, Col 1:16 and so he must be greater and more excellent than they; for which purpose the passage is quoted in Heb 1:
This is quoted by Paul (Heb 1:7) to denote the subordinate position of angels; that is, they are only messengers as other and material agencies. spirits--literally, "winds." flaming fire-- (Ps 105:32) being here so called.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Hebrews 1:14Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
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The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
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2 Kings 6:17Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and…
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The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
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Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
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Hebrews 1:7Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”
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Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and…
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