Spiritual Wickedness in High Places.
By Editor
WE have received the following letter from Colorado:— "EDITOR SIGNS:—Is there anything in the Greek that would convey the idea that the angel who talked with John, Rev. 19: 10, said that he was a blood relation? Elder Todd told me to-day that the Greek properly translated would read thus: ‘I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren, and a blood relation.’ Please give me a correct version of the Greek of the above and greatly oblige. Your brother in Christ. G. W. R." Although this letter called for and received an answer by letter, we take the liberty to publish it, as a specimen of the methods to which even those who fill offices and have taken vows the most sacred, resort in order to evade and put down the truth. Of course there is no ground whatever for the statement; not even for the barest inference looking in that direction. All of God's creatures, whether in Heaven or upon earth, are his servants, and of course, fellow-servants one to another. Angels are fellow-servants of the saints “who have the testimony of Jesus.” The ellipsis is so common that it occasions no obscurity in language. Supplied in this text it will read: “I am thy fellow-servant, and the fellow-servant of thy brethren,” etc. He who tries to put any other construction, especially by pretending to gather it from the Greek, inexcusably and wickedly perverts the sacred word. We refer him to chapter 22, verse 18, of the same book.