among the angels

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“Paradise Lost” depicts a war among the angels, Satan being cast into hell and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2014

He is represented in the person of an old man looking from the clouds, in the centre of the ceiling, and the King appears among the angels that surround him.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

There is something to remember: cultivate sympathy, gentleness, forgiveness, purity, truth, love: and then, though you may have no other gifts, "until you're among the angels, you cannot be commonplace."

From Three Addresses to Girls at School by Wilson, J. M. (James Maurice)

There was no being in heaven among the angels, no human being on the earth, and no disembodied spirit, or demon, under the earth, who was able to unfold the future.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester

“Verily I say unto you, There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over every sinner that repenteth.”

From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)