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Of the angels (pros tous aggelous). “With reference to” (pros) as in Luk 20:9. So “of the Son” in Heb 1:8. Note men here and de in Heb 1:8 in carefully balanced contrast. The quotation is from Psa 104:4.
Winds (pneumata). “Spirits” the word also means. The meaning (note article with aggelous, not with pneumata) apparently is one that can reduce angels to the elemental forces of wind and fire (Moffatt).
A flame of fire (puros phloga). Predicate accusative of phlox, old word, in N.T. only here and Luk 16:24. Lunemann holds that the Hebrew here is wrongly rendered and means that God makes the wind his messengers (not angels) and flaming fire his servants. That is all true, but that is not the point of this passage. Preachers also are sometimes like a wind-storm or a fire.