. . ."[126] Now
Christ did not die for the angels. But still, what was done for
man by his death for man's redemption and his deliverance from
evil was done for the angels also, because by it the enmity caused
by sin between men and the angels is removed and friendship
restored. Moreover, this redemption of mankind serves to repair
the ruins left by the angelic apostasy.
62. Of course, the holy angels, taught by God -- in the
eternal contemplation of whose truth they are blessed -- know how
many of the human race are required to fill up the full census of
that commonwealth. This is why the apostle says "that all things
are restored to unity in Christ, both those in heaven and those on
the earth in him."[127] The part in heaven is indeed restored
when the number lost from the angelic apostasy are replaced from
the ranks of mankind. The part on earth is restored when those
men predestined to eternal life are redeemed from the old state of
corruption.
Thus by the single sacrifice, of which the many victims of
the law were only shadows, the heavenly part is set at peace with
the earthly part and the earthly reconciled to the heavenly.
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