δόξας δὲ βλασφημοῦσιν. Cf. 2 Pet. ii. το, τολμηταὶ αὐθάδεις δόξας οὐ τρέ- µουσιν βλασφημοῦντες. The only other passage in the N.T. in which the plural occurs is I Peter i. 11, where the sense is different. Dr. Bigg compares Exod. XV. II, Tis ὅμοιός σοι ἐν θεοῖς, Κύριε: τίς ὅμοιός σοι; δεδοξασµένος ἐν ἁγίοις, θαυμαστὸς ἐν δόξαις. Clement’s inter- pretation of this and the preceding clause is as follows: (Adumbr. 1008) “ domi- nationem spernunt, hoc est solum domi- num qui vere dominus noster est, Jesus Christus . . . majestatem blasphemant, hoc est angelos”. The word δόξα in the singular is used for the Shekinah, see my note on James ii.1. This sug- gests that Clement may be right in sup- posing the plural to be used for the angels, who are, as it were, Separate rays of that glory. Compare Philo’s use of the name λόγοι for the angels as con- trasted with the divine Λόγος. In Phila, Monarch. ii. p. 18 the divine δόξα, is said to consist of the host of angels, δόξαν δὲ σὴν εἶναι νοµίζω τάς σε δορυφορούσας δυνάµεις. See Test. γιά. 25, Κύριος εὐλόγησε τὸν Aevi, ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ προσώπου ἐμέ, ai δυνάµεις τῆς δοξης τὸν Συμεών, also Luke ix. 26, where it is said that ‘ the Son of Man will come in His own glory and in the glory of the Father and οἱ the holy . angels"’.* Ewald, Hist. Isr. tr. vol. Vill. p. 142, explains ἡ κνριότης of the true Deity, whom they practically deny
* There is much said of the glory of the angels in Asc. Isaiae, pp. 47, 49 f
«d. Charles.