SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

CHARLES HODGE

Angels freedom, unchained themselves from God.

This does not mean that God sovereignity is
That there are intelligent creatures
unperfect, but all of that is God’s perfect
higher than man. Their nature: As Pure
plan which we cannot and never understand.
spirits, immaterial and incorporeal beings.
The Scripure did not describe them as
Beings that have bodies, and ‘assumption
that spirit unconnected with matter cannot
act out itself, that it can neither
communicate with other spirits nor operate
on the external world.”
In the council of Nice in 784, they
stated that angels had bodies composed of
ether or light (Matt 28:3, Luke 2:9). In the
council of Lateran in 1215, they decided that
angels are incorporeal (Which already a
common opinion in the church); also angels
are declared to be “substantiae spirituals,
omnis corporae molis expertes.” Or they are
invisible, incorruptible, and immortal; their
relation to space is described as an
“illocalitas”, not ubiquity or omnipresence,
as they are always somewhere and not
everywhere at any given moment, “but they
are not confined to space circumscriptively
as bodies are, and can move from one
portion of space to another.”
According to our common
knowledge about angels, they are somewhat
higher than human beings as they are the
direct messenger of God that was pure and
did not commit any sin like us human
beings. But they are evil angels, that also
known as the devils, or satan. They are the
angels of God that rebels His will, because
of their thought and their pride to not be
faithful and because of their love of