On page 122 of [James, Peter, John, Jude], you said that angels are "never described as having wings," and yet Isaiah 6:2 describes the seraphs as having six wings. Were you referring to humanoid angels, or was that a mistake?'
Seraphs and cherubs are types of guardian spirits described in the Old Testament. "Regular" angels normally appear as humans; in fact, they are most often indistinguishable from them. As far as we can tell, angels (or messengers -- Hebrew mala'k and Greek angelos (both mean angel or messenger) -- do not have wings. The archangel Gabriel being in "swift flight" (Daniel 9:21) does not prove he had wings.
Of course I could be wrong. Perhaps seraphs are a type of angel, in which case some angels would be winged. Or maybe angels do have wings, even though the scriptures never state this explicitly. Yet never do we read about a cherub guarding a human, or a seraph being mistaken for a human being. These beings seem to be quite different from angels.
Anyway, we normally think of angels as winged; in my book I was merely pointing out that this is an inference, and may well be mistaken.
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