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|Definition=ὁ, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[messenger]], [[envoy]], Il.2.26, etc.; δι' ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί Hdt.5.92.ζ, cf. SIG229.25 (Erythrae):— [[proverb|prov.]], [[Ἀράβιος]] [[ἄγγελος]], of a [[loquacious]] person, Men.32.<br><span class="bld">2</span> generally, one that [[announce]]s or [[tell]]s, e.g. of [[bird]]s of [[augury]], Il.24.292,296; [[Μουσῶν ἄγγελος]], of a [[poet]], Thgn.769; ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ Simon.74; [[ἄγγελος]] [[ἄφθογγος]], of a [[beacon]], Thgn.549; of the [[nightingale]], [[ὄρνις]] . . Διὸς [[ἄγγελος]] S.El.149: c. gen. rei, ἄγγελος κακῶν ἐμῶν Id.Ant.277; ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων E.Supp.203; [[αἴσθησις]] ἡμῖν ἄγγελος Plot.5.3.3; neut. pl., ἄγγελα νίκης Nonn.D.34.226.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[angel]], LXX Ge.28.12, al., Ev.Matt.1.24, al., Ph.2.604, etc.<br><span class="bld">4</span> in later philos., [[semi-divine being]], ἡλιακοὶ ἄγγελοι Jul.Or.4.141b, cf. Iamb.Myst.2.6, Procl. in R.2.243 K.; ἄγγελοι καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι Theol.Ar.43.10, cf. Dam.Pr.183, al.: also in [[mystical]] and [[magical]] [[writing]]s, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45, PMag.Lond.46.121, etc.<br><span class="bld">II</span> title of [[Artemis]] at [[Syracuse]], Hsch.

|astxt=[[ἄγγελος]], -ου, ὁ, [in LXX [[chiefly]] for מַלְאָךְ;] <br /><b class="num">1.</b>a [[messenger]], [[one]] sent: Mt 11:10, Ja 22:25.<br /><b class="num">2.</b>As in LXX, in the [[special]] [[sense]] of angel, a [[spiritual]], [[heavenly]] [[being]], [[attendant]] [[upon]] God and employed as his [[messenger]] to men, to [[make]] [[known]] his purposes, as Lk 1:11, or to [[execute]] [[them]], as Mt 4:6. The ἄ. in Re 1:20-2:1, al., is [[variously]] understood as<br /><b class="num">(1)</b>a [[messenger]] or [[delegate]], <br /><b class="num">(2)</b>a bishop or [[ruler]], <br /><b class="num">(3)</b>a [[guardian]] angel, <br /><b class="num">(4)</b>the prevailing [[spirit]] of [[each]] [[church]], i.e. the Church itself. (Cf. Swete, Ap)., in l.; DB, iv, 991; Thayer, s.v.; Cremer, 18; MM, VGT, s.v.)