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seraph
/ˈsɛɹəf/
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What does seraph mean?
noun
- A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
- A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
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Once only--and only momentarily--did the seraph of the sanctuary touch his lips with the live coal.
Rushing from the depth of despair, on the seraph wing of hope, she found herself happy.—She was beloved, and every emotion was rapturous.
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Suppose whenever a man whistled a tune he “drew an angel down” and had to walk about forever with a seraph on a string.
Coiled around the stem of this life, it gives to the incarnated soul that wisdom which later blossoms in the Seraph of the Sun spheres.
But to the couch where childhood lies, A more delicious trance is given, Lit up by rays from seraph eyes, And glimpses of remembered heaven.--W.