Wie sehen Engel in der Bibel aus? Meistens wie Männer, manchmal wie ein Blitz

In the Bible, angels who come to people usually look like men, so much like men that they are welcomed as guests and fed. When their glory shows, they look like lightning, in clothes “white as snow” (Matthew 28:3). And the creatures nearest God’s throne, the seraphim and cherubim, have six wings or four, and in Ezekiel’s vision four faces. The first angels a reader meets in human form arrive at a tent door. Abraham “sat in the tent door…