SERAPHIM
According to Isaiah Seraphim were creatures with hands, feet, six wings, and a human voice. The traditional view is that they are an order of angels, chief of the nine choirs. With this corresponds the derivation of the name from “saraph,” “to be high,” as if the Seraphim were princes. It is in the New Testament that angels are first represented as winged creatures. The wings in Isaiah were purely symbolical. The Seraphim were God’s messengers between heaven and earth.
In short, ’ the Cherubim and the Seraphim originally symbolised, the former storm-clouds, which concealed the Deity, or winds, and the latter the lightning.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 4
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104SERAPHIM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 4
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