Verse 15
15. Saints Holy ones. See Job 5:1. The belief in a defection among the angels was very ancient. Thus in the Veda, as extracted by Sir Wm. Jones, (vol. vi, page 418,) “But what are they? Others yet greater.… companies of spirits… have we seen destroyed. But what are they? Others still greater have been changed even the sufees, or angels, hurled from their stations.”
The heavens The blue heavens, with their glittering stars, have ever been an emblem of purity, but, compared with God, they are not clean. Most commentators, however, regard the word as a trope for “the hosts of the heavens.” But this is needless.
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