Note 85 — Of Angels and Archangels. (continued 2)

Bottari, Tab. xxii. On the early Christian sarcophagi, as I have already observed, there are no winged angels. In the oft-repeated subject of the ‘Three Children in the burning fiery furnace,’ the fourth figure, when introduced, may represent a son of God,—i.e. an angel; or the Son of God, i.e. Christ, as it has been interpreted in both senses.