5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.



Ver. 5. For unto the angels, &c.] The Jews, as they had embraced the Pythagorean transanimation, Mat_16:14, so the Platonic opinion of angels moving the heavens, and ordering the world; whom therefore they worshipped, intruding into those things whereof there was no sound either proof or profit, Col_2:18. The angels (say Proculus the Platonist and Plutarch) are messengers that carry God’s mind to men and men’s requests to God. {a} But who told them all this? Egregie dicis, sed quomodo probas? said Aristotle of Moses, may we better say of these bold affirmers.



{a} ðïñèìåõïíôåò ôá ôùí Èåùí ðñïò áíèïùðïõò .