What's So Great About Ushas?

Jeff Wilson · 20 Jul 2008, 19:14 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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b sharp wrote:
> But you note Tzadkiel is known as an angel of mercy and omit that he/she is also
> considered an angel of justice in some texts. You note that Tzadkiel was the one
> to intervene in Moses' sacrifice of his son (no coincidence that Venant is killed I think),

By Moses, do you mean Abraham?

> In my list of genocides you take pains to note the ones done by God without angelic help
> while ignoring the ones (10th plague for example) that were the specific work of angels.
> I'm unclear on the point of that argument anyway. Are you suggesting that the Biblical God
> and angels are sometimes working independently of each other? 

This is the generally accepted as the case in the OT; Satan ("The 
Adversary") remains a heavenly presence but takes the adversarial 
position of proving mankind or a particular man, like Job, is unworthy 
of G-d's favor, and may even command subordinate angels to help him 
accomplish this.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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