superangelic

* Modem Arlans, in proving Jesus to be a superangelic being, found their chief argument on his being called " the Son of God," and infer from this, that he must be above angels — a superangelic being. But are not men and angels called the "sons of God?"

1832, Robert Wharton Landis, A Plea for the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, Philadelphia, page 87

It ought frankly to be admitted, that there are many passages of Holy Writ which speak of our Lord Jesus Christ in very lofty and mysterious terms, and such as, at first sight, might well create an impression, that he was either really God, or at least some great superangelic being, who existed in heaven before he appeared as a man upon earth. Of the chief of these passages I shall presently make it my business to offer some explanation; but before doing so, I will make one or two remarks which apply to them in general.

1867, Thomas Foster Barham, One God the Father: or, the Strict and Proper Monotheism of the Gospel Vindicated, American Physiological Society, page 123

Concerning the latter, Warfield says (1) that Jesus here "asserts for himself not merely a superhuman but even a superangelic rank in the scale of being", (2) that "He separates himself from the angels in heaven (note the enhancing definition of locality, carrying with it the sense of the exaltation of these angels above all that is earthly) as belonging to a different class from them, and that a superior class." (3) that Jesus "the Son" stands as definitely and as incomparably above the category of angels, the highest of God's creatures, as to the author of the epistle of the Hebrews, whose argument may be taken as a commentary upon this passage (Heb. 1:4-2:8)

1912, Charles Manford Sharpe, The Normative Use of Scripture by Typical Theologians of Protestant Orthodoxy in Great Britain and America, George Banta Publishing Company, pages 37-38