4. Who maketh his angels spirits, or “winds,” for the word means either. Angels are pure spirits, though they are
permitted to assume visible form when God desires us to see them. God is a
spirit, and he is waited upon by spirits in his royal courts. Angels are like
winds for mystery, force, and invisibility, and no doubt the winds themselves
are often the angels or messengers of God. His ministers a flaming fire.
Here, too, we may choose which we will of two meanings: God’s ministers or
servants he makes to be as swift, potent, and terrible as fire, and on the
other hand he makes fire, that devouring element, to be his minister flaming
forth upon his errands. That the passage refers to angels is clear from Hebrews 1:7; and it was most proper to mention them here in connection
with light and the heavens, and immediately after the robes and palace of the
great King.
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