A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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The envied height but aggravates the fall.

George Bally.

ANGELS.

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.—Genesis, xxviii. 12.

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.—Psalm xxxiv. 7.

For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.—Psalm xci. 11, 12.

Then the devil leaveth Him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto Him.—Matthew, iv. 11.

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels.—Matthew, xxvi. 53.