Angel in the Woods
by Bruce Nutting
Title
Angel in the Woods
Artist
Bruce Nutting
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Painting - Digital
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The word angel in English is a blend of Old English engel (with a hard g) and Old French angele. Both derive from Late Latin angelus "messenger of God", which in turn was borrowed from Late Greek angelos. According to R. S. P. Beekes, angelos itself may be "an Oriental loan ['Persian mounted courier']." The word's earliest form is Mycenaean a-ke-ro attested in Linear B syllabic script.
The angelos is the default Septuagint's translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mal'akh denoting simply "messenger" without specifying its nature. In the Latin Vulgate, however, the meaning becomes bifurcated: when mal'akh or angelos is supposed to denote a human messenger, words like nuntius or legatus are applied. If the word refers to some supernatural being, the word angelus appears. Such differentiation has been taken over by later vernacular translations of the Bible, early Christian and Jewish exegetes and eventually modern scholars.
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