being more full and explicit. Justin Martyr and others supposed that even Homer borrowed from Hebraic records and traditions, and found in his writings the creation of the world, the tower of Babel, and the angels cast out of heaven. Hesiod's beautiful allegory of "Love calling order from chaos,"[1] may, it is said, be traced to the same source.
The fact of the actual existence of such beings as angels are represented, it is for others to question: according to all that is related of them, they are creatures superior in power, but endued with wishes and propensities nearly resembling those of mortals; and, in their attributes, corresponding almost entirely with those deities which they are thought, by the fathers, to have personated, and which have ever been a subject for poetry and fable.
