Gower, the poet of the fourteenth century, says:—

“_The raynbow is hir messagere._”

Angels are called “winged messengers.”

“The angels are still dispatched by God upon all his great _messages_ to

the world, and, therefore, their very name in Greek signifies a

_messenger_.”—_South_, vol. viii. ser. 3.

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