Many of the church fathers believed in guardian angels, but they disagreed on their function. In the Dead Sea Scrolls angels watch over the meek, the despised and the orphaned (1QH 5.20‑22).
“I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter before the glory of the Holy One” (Tobit 12:15 Lexham LXX/my translation)Īccording to one interpretation of the children of Israel in the wilderness, God commanded Israel’s guardian angels not to intercede anymore on Israel’s behalf, for they had become too rebellious (Pseudo‑Philo, L.A.B.“For a good angel will go along with him, and his journey will be successful he will return safely” (Tobit 5:22 Lexham LXX/my translation).“I am the angel who has been walking with you and guarding you from your infancy” ( Testament of Jacob 2.5).And this is its service” ( Testament of Adam 4:1). And the plan has been revealed to it by God concerning every human being whom they watch over, because one angel from this lowest order accompanies every single human being in the world for his protection. “But for me it is not the same, because God has protected me and because he has delivered me to his angels and to his guardians that they should guard me” (Pseudo-Philo Liber Antiquitatum biblicarum 59.4).From that time on the righteous ones shall sleep a restful sleep, and there shall be no one to make them afraid” (1 Enoch 100.5). “He will set a guard of holy angels over all the righteous and holy ones, and they shall keep them as the apple of the eye until all evil and all sin are brought to an end.3 Some examples from Jewish traditions are as follows:* 2 Ancient Jewish traditions suggested that angels were assigned to everyone. Ancient thinkers of the Greco-Roman world such as Plato, Plutarch and Plotinus believed in spiritual guardians, as did Babylonian and Assyrian writers. Belief in guardian angels is nothing new.
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