| | ed07 - On angels and archangels, including the origin and meaning of the words angel and archangel - ed07.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Most English bible-versions have that unfortunate word "archangel", instead of properly translating the Greek word in question, archangelos or arch-angelos (archaggelos, arch-aggelos), as "chief messenger" which is what it meant. |
 | | Again: The word archangelos ("chief messenger") is found only two times in the Bible, in the New Testament: In 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and then in Jude 9 which mentions someone called Michael (Michaêl), a Greek transliteration of a Hebrew word-combination which meant something like "He who is like God" or "Who is like God". |
 | | Thus, while in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 the archangelos (archaggelos, chief messenger) apparently is Jesus (who was God's Chief Messenger), in Jude 9 the archangelos (chief messenger) might have been someone who had been sent by the one who later became Jesus and was thus his (Jesus') "chief messenger". |
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