When the Little Ones are Assigned to Angels. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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27. When the Little Ones are Assigned to Angels.

Then again one might inquire at what time those who are called their angels assume guardianship of the little ones pointed out by Christ; whether they received this commission to discharge concerning them, from what time “by the laver of regeneration,”⁵⁹⁹¹

⁵⁹⁹¹ Tit. iii. 5.
through which they were born “as new-born babes, they long for the reasonable milk which is without guile,”⁵⁹⁹²

⁵⁹⁹² 1 Pet. ii. 2.
and no longer are in subjection to any wicked power; or, whether from birth they had been appointed, according to the foreknowledge and predestination of God, over those whom God also foreknew, and foreordained to be conformed to the glory of the Christ.⁵⁹⁹³

⁵⁹⁹³ Rom. viii. 29.
And with reference to the view that they have angels from birth, one might quote, “He who separated me from my mother’s womb,”⁵⁹⁹⁴

⁵⁹⁹⁴ Gal. i. 15.
and, “From the womb of my mother thou hast been my protector,”⁵⁹⁹⁵

⁵⁹⁹⁵ Ps. lxxi. 6.
and, “He has assisted me from my mother’s womb,”⁵⁹⁹⁶

⁵⁹⁹⁶ Ps. cxxxix. 13.
and, “Upon thee I was cast from my mother,”⁵⁹⁹⁷

⁵⁹⁹⁷ Ps. xxii. 10.
and in the Epistle of Jude, “To them that are beloved in God the Father and are kept for Jesus Christ, being called,”⁵⁹⁹⁸

⁵⁹⁹⁸ Jude 1.
—kept completely by the angels who keep them.
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