Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

Question Corner

By Editor

1781.—Angels That Sinned. 2 Peter 2:4.

Will you tell me the meaning of "the angels that sinned being cast down to earth and delivered into chains of darkness"? 2 Peter 2:4.

The angels that sinned are the same as those of whom Jude speaks in his epistle, that kept not their first estate. They were those who, when their great leader assumed to be like God, as intimated in Isa. 14:12-14, followed him and fell with him, and they were cast down to earth. The original word is used only once in the New Testament, that is tartarus, and is held to be the aerial region around the world. They are not allowed, as formerly, to enter heaven, and are kept there as literally and as truly as tho they were chained.