Some of the “advanced” theologians away back in old Rowland Hill's day tried to shake the old man's faith by assuring him that there were really no such beings as angels, and that they were simply “Oriental metaphors.”
“Very well, then,” said the old man, “then it was a company of Oriental metaphors that sang at the birth of Christ; and it was an Oriental metaphor that slew 185,000 of Sennacherib's army in a single night and it was an Oriental metaphor that appeared to Peter in prison and knocked the chains of his hands, and led him through the streets. “Truly,” said he, “these Oriental metaphors are wonderful things.”
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
(1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 25)
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