圣经中的天使长什么样?通常像人,有时像闪电



  • 圣经中大多数造访人类的天使看起来都像普通男人,亚伯拉罕和罗得在不知道他们身份的情况下,曾将他们当作客人款待。
  • 当天使显露荣耀时,人们很难直视他们:坟墓前的天使面貌如同闪电,衣服洁白如雪。
  • 由于这种景象非常令人恐惧,天使通常会以“不要惧怕”作为开场白。
  • 以赛亚书中的撒拉弗有六个翅膀,而以西结书中的基路伯有四个翅膀和四张脸:人脸、狮子脸、牛脸和鹰脸。
  • 没有任何以人形出现的天使被描述为长有翅膀,最早的基督教绘画中加百列也是没有翅膀的。
  • 天使是灵体,为了造访而化作人形;圣经从未将天使描述为女性。
  • “天使”一词意为使者,天主教会教导说,每位信徒身边都有一位守护天使。

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…

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