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| Chapter XVII. Of the fact that two angels always cling to every man.
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Chapter XVII.
Of the fact that two angels always cling to every
man.
For Holy Scripture bears
witness that two angels, a good and a bad one, cling to each one of us.
And of the good ones the Saviour says: “Do not despise one of
these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in heaven do
always behold the face of thy Father which is in
heaven:”1545
and this also:
“the angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear
Him, and deliver them.”1546
Moreover this
also which is said in
the Acts of the Apostles, of Peter, that
“it is his angel.”1547
But of both
sorts the book of the Shepherd teaches us very fully.1548
| 1548 The reference is
to the Pastor or Shepherd of Hermas, a work of the second century. The
passage to which Cassian alludes is found in Book II. Commandm. vi.;
where it is said that “there are two angels with a man, one of
righteousness and the other of iniquity,” and suggestions are
given how to recognize each of them and to distinguish the suggestions
of the one from those of the other. The passage is also alluded to by
Origen, De Principiis, Book III. c. ii. and Hom. xxxv. in (Lucam); and
Cassian refers to it again in Conf. XIII. c. xii. | But if we consider about him who
attacked the blessed Job we shall clearly learn that it was he who
always plotted against him but never could entice him to sin, and that
therefore he asked for power from the Lord, as he was worsted not by
his (Job’s) virtue but by the Lord’s protection which ever
shielded him. Of Judas also it is said: “And let the devil stand
at his right hand.”1549
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