angel-worship

The fastness of Sant 'Angelo, metropolis of European angel-worship, has grown up around this "devout and honourable cave"; on sunny days its houses are clearly visible from Man-fredonia.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

If it be objected that this interpretation opens the door to angel-worship, the answer is that the door is effectually closed in this very book, in xix. 10; xxii.

Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

Thus the point of Paul's argument against angel-worship is, that angels themselves, like men, wholly depend on Christ, the sole and true object of worship [Auberlen].

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

These mixed up with pure Christianity Oriental theosophy and angel-worship, and the asceticism of certain sections of the Jews, especially the Essenes.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

It first passed into that phase of it which appears in the Epistle to the Colossians, whereby will-worship and angel-worship were superadded to Judaizing opinions.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Thus Paul's argument against those grafting on Christianity Jewish observances, along with angel-worship, is, whatever part angels may be supposed to have had under the law, now at an end, God having put the legal dispensation itself away.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

"Now" stands in contrast to "I was made," in the past time (Col 1: 23). for you -- "on your behalf," that ye may be confirmed in resting solely on Christ (to the exclusion of angel-worship) by the glorification of

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Not angels in opposition to the false teachers 'doctrine concerning angel-worship, and the power of Oeons or

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

She was so young, so plainly girlish, that as yet there was no room for dread or jealousy; the feeling in his heart was a kind of gentle angel-worship; and he would have turned from the idea of marrying her, if indeed it had ever presented itself, as an irreverent thought, which he dared not for a moment be guilty of entertaining.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

The persistent love of the people of this neighbourhood for the angel-worship which St. Paul rebukes, is illustrated by the facts that in the 4th century a Church Council at Laodicea condemned the worship of angels, and that, in spite of this, in the 9th and 10th centuries the district was the centre of the worship of St. Michael, who was believed to have opened the chasm of the Lycus, and so saved the people of Chonae from an inundation.

The Books of the New Testament Leighton Pullan 1902