And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
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Bede
AD 735
angel: The angels, of whom we read in the Gospel as "the reapers of the earth," are all "sent forth to minister for those who have the inheritance of salvation," and they take account of the several merits of the Church, and report them daily to the Lord.