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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When armed men come to arrest Jesus one of his followers draws a sword and cuts off the ear of a high priest’s servant. Jesus tells him to put down his sword. “Do you think I cannot now pray to my Father who would presently give more than twelve legions of angels?” A Roman legion at the time had five thousand men but Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century revealed that a heavenly legion has 6666 angels. Twelve such legions would have been a modest portion of what the Bible calls “heaven’s army.” Revelation stares there are “ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands and thou- sands of angels. Hebrews merely says they are innumerable. Bernardino of Siena in the 15th century said there are more angels than stars in the sky grains of sand on the beaches or all corporeal things. 14th century Kabbalists turning words into numbers calculated that there are exactly 301655722 although the Zohar says that 600 million were created on the second day of Creation and others afterward. Marsilio Ficino in the 15th century expanding Origen said that there are indeed 6.666 angels per legion and also 6666 legions per order and nine orders but that the to- tal number (which would otherwise be 399920004) remains incalculable. One of the largest estimates is in the apocryphal book 3 Enoch where each of the seven archangels leads 496000 myriads and each myriad has 10000 angels: 34720000000 angels in all. William Cross in the 18th century simply said “tis beyond the Power of Arithmetic to compute them.” Others have wondered how angels being incorporeal could be counted. (LL)