“But eare he thus had say’d,
With flying speede and seeming great pretence,
Came running in, much like a man dismay’d,
A messenger with letters, which his message say’d.”
Spenser.
Gower, the poet of the fourteenth century, says:—
“The raynbow is hir messagere.”
Angels are called “winged messengers.”
“The angels are still dispatched by God upon all his great messages to the world, and, therefore, their very name in Greek signifies a messenger.”—South, vol. viii. ser. 3.
Milton also thus beautifully alludes to the angel messengers:—