Discourse on the Angels or Spirits of Empires

...holds [authority over] all; he divided the nations of the whole earth into seventy-two parts: and appointed Angelic Princes for them; but to One, who was the greatest among the Archangels, the administration was given by lot over those who, above all others, received the worship and knowledge of the Most High God. I am certainly aware of what Lucas Osiander A Lutheran theologian and historian. (History of the Church, century 1), Baronius Cesare Baronius (1538–1607), a Catholic cardinal and historian. (Year 44, section 42), Sixtus of Siena (Library, book 2), and even Bellarmine himself (On Free Will, book 5, chapter 25; and Treatise on Ecclesiastical Writers, Year 100 AD) thought about these books of Clement’s Recognitions A narrative work once attributed to Clement of Rome, though its authenticity was heavily debated during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.; but nonetheless, our colleague Sichardus (who edited Clement’s works) recognizes that book as genuineoriginal: γνησίῳ (gnēsiō). I will not make this dispute my own at this time.

Furthermore, Dionysius the Areopagite A 5th-century theologian whose writings were traditionally attributed to the biblical Dionysius converted by St. Paul; his work was highly influential in medieval angelology. (who is nearly the only one among all ancient writers in whom no one has noted a lapse in doctrine to this day, if we believe Pierre Lanssel of the Society of Jesus) writes thus on this matter in The Celestial Hierarchy, chapter 9: Theology attributes a hierarchy to the Angels, and calls Michael the Prince of the Jewish people, and others the princes of other nations. For the Most High established the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the Angels of God. But if someone asks why the Jewish people alone were raised and stirred toward Divine illuminations, the answer is: the errors by which other nations turned toward those who are not Gods should not be attributed to the righteous leadership of the Angels; but rather to those very people who, by their own inclination, turned away from the right path leading to God out of self-love, stubbornness, and a veneration of their own opinions regarding those they deemed worthy of God's name. It is taught that this happened even to the Hebrew people themselves: for He says, "You have rejected knowledge, and followed after your own heart," (Exodus 32 and Hosea 4 Referring to Hosea 4:6, "Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you."). There is one simple, unchanging, and widely poured-out ray of the Divine source: especially since other nations were not governed by foreign gods, but by leaders who were present to the immense and abundant...