_1 K. 19:5_—“_an angel touched him_ [Elijah], _and said unto him, Arise and eat_”; _Ps. 91:11_—“_he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone_”; _Dan. 6:22_—“_My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me_”; _Mat. 4:11_—“_angels came and ministered unto him_”—Jesus was the type of all believers; _18:10_—“_despise not one of these little ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father_”; compare _verse 6_—“_one of these little ones that believe on me_”; see Meyer, Com. _in loco_, who regards these passages as proving the doctrine of guardian angels. _Luke 16:22_—“_the beggar died, and ... was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s bosom_”; _Heb. 1:14_—“_Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?_” Compare _Acts 12:15_—“_And they said, It is his angel_”—of Peter standing knocking; see Hackett, Com. _in loco_: the utterance “expresses a popular belief prevalent among the Jews, which is neither affirmed nor denied.” Shakespeare, Henry IV, 2nd part, 2:2—“For the boy—there is a good angel about him.” _Per contra_, see Broadus, Com. on _Mat. 18:10_—“It is simply said of believers as a class that there are angels which are ‘_their angels_’; but there is nothing here or elsewhere to show that one angel has special charge of one believer.” (_g_) by punishing God’s enemies. _2 K. 19:35_—“_it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand_”; _Acts 12:23_—“_And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost._” A general survey of this Scripture testimony as to the employments of good angels leads us to the following conclusions: