He maketh his angels spirits
—is without a violent inversion senseless), this is a case in point for the use of the word,
spirits
, in the sense of incorporeal beings. (Mr. Oxlee will hardly, I apprehend, attribute the opinion of some later Rabbis, that God alone and exclusively is a Spirit, to the Sacred Writers, easy as it would be to quote a score of texts in proof of the contrary.) I, however, cannot doubt that the true rendering of the above-mentioned verse in the Psalms is;—
He maketh the winds his angels or messengers, and the lightnings his ministrant servants
.
As to Mr. Oxlee's
abstract intelligences,
I cannot but think
abstract