Who Is Michael? Pseudo-Dionysius: The revealing order of the principalities, archangels and angels, presides, through each other, over human hierarchies, in order that their elevation, conversion, communion and union with God may be in proper order.… Michael is called ruler of the Jewish people and other angels rulers over other nations. For the Most High established borders of nations according to number of his angels. Celestial Hierarchy 9.2.
Princes Are Angels. Cassiodorus: The devil is also called a
prince, as in the Gospel passage, “Behold, the prince of this world comes, and
in me he will not find anything.” Likewise a good angel is called a prince, as
we read in Daniel: “Michael your prince.” So they are saying that the hope of
humankind must rest in neither wicked nor good angels but in the Lord alone.
Even if we love the good angels for the devotion they bestow on us, we praise
the Lord’s blessing that they manifest. Expositions of the Psalms 117.9. (Ezekiel,
Daniel, ed. Kenneth Stevenson and Michael Gluerup [Ancient Christian
Commentary on Scripture; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2008], 303)
