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Papias of Hierapolis, ANF 1

VII

Papias thus speaks, word for word: To some of them [angels] He gave dominion over the arrangement of the world, and He commissioned them to exercise their dominion well. And he says, immediately after this: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing.1

Notes

  1. That is, that government of the world’s affairs was a failure. An ancient writer takes ταξις to mean the arraying of the evil angels in battle against God.

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