The Quality of Angels
For the most part what we know as angel lore comes long after the canonization of the Hebrew Bible as well as the canonization of the Christian New testament. Angel lore for the most part comes from the conjecture of apocryphal literature as is, the further development of doctrine split into many factions of belief within the belief structure itself and in, for the most part, a monotheistic structure. Angelology is the study of this conjecture in a theological manner branched of in theology itself. The word “angel” is an English word derived from the old English word “engal" as well as old French “angele" which comes from late Latin “angelus” which in turn is translated from the late Greek “angelos.” Angelos is the Greek rendering of the Hebrew word mal'akh which means “messenger.” In the Septuagint, when the word messenger applies to a human, its replaced with words like “nuntius" or “legatus" but, when it is a reference to an angel the word angelos a