Angels and Women (1924)

258 ANGELS AND WOMENamong the gods?" (Exodus 15:11) "Give ear,Jehovah, unto my prayer .... Among the godsthere is none like unto thee."--Psalm 86:6-8.NoTs 15. (See page 105)See Note 4, to which may be added the fact that weare assured by St. Paul that Jehovah will not subjectthe world to come, wherein dwelleth righteousness, tothe administration of angels, as he permitted to be thecase with the earth and its peoples before the Flood.--See Hebrews 2:5.NOTE 16. (See page 125)Maya, Sang, it for illusion. Homa, an intoxicatingdrink made from milkweed, used by the ancient Aryantribes, believed by them to have been of antediluvianorigin and regarded in a certain sense as a spirit ordeity.NOTE 17. (See page 129)"And out of the ground the Lord God formed everybeast of the field and every fowl of the air; andbrought them unto Adam to see what he would callthem: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,that was the name thereof."---Genesis 2:19.NOTE 18. (See page 130)"Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begatShem, Ham, and Japheth."---Genesis 5:32.NOTE 19. (See page 141)The first great judgment was at the beginning, inEden, when Adam stood on trial before God. Theresult of that trial was a verdict of guilty, disobedient,unworthy of continued life. The penalty inflicted wasdeath (Genesis 2:17); and as a result "in Adam alldie."--1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12.