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There can be no doubt as to the meaning of the word 'saints' here. The
law of Sinai we know from various Scriptures was mediated by angels (Acts
7:53; Gal. 3:19; Heb. 2:2).
'The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the
Lord is among them, as in Sinai' (Psa 68:17).
'A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand
thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before Him' (Dan. 7:10).
'For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His
angels' (Matt. 16:27; cf. 25:31).
'The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels'
(2 Thess. 1:7).
These quotations are sufficient to prove that the 'saints' or 'holy
ones' of Enoch's prophecy are 'angels' and not the redeemed. This also is
the meaning of Zechariah 14:5, 'And the Lord my God shall come, and all the
saints with Thee', and of Joel 3:11, 'Thither cause Thy mighty ones to come
down, O Lord'; also of 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 'The coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all His saints'.