Luke 2:13 - Exposition

With the angel a multitude of the heavenly host . "The troop of angels issues forth from the depths of that invisible world which surrounds us on every side" (Godet). One of the glorious titles by which the eternal King was known among the chosen people was "Lord of sabaoth," equivalent to "Lord of hosts." In several passages of the Scriptures is the enormous multitude of these heavenly beings noticed; for instance, Psalms 68:17 , where the Hebrew is much more expressive than the English rendering; Daniel 7:10 , "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him" (see, too, the Targum of Palestine on Deuteronomy 33:1-29 , "And with him ten thousand times ten thousand holy angels;" and "The crown of the Law is his [Moses'], because he brought it from the heavens above, when there was revealed to him the glory of the Lord's Shechinah, with two thousand myriads of angels, and forty and two thousand chariots of fire," etc.).