angels are only spirits, not souls, that they cannot possess the same rich existence as man, whose soul is the point of union in which spirit and nature meet” (cited by Gerhart, ibid.). No consideration of the relative importance of angels as compared to man will be complete which fails to observe that man, though now sunken to “an horrible pit” and “miry clay,” is, when redeemed, lifted up to a place of secure standing on the Rock (Ps. 40:2) and destined to be conformed to the image of Christ, which