Angels and Their Love for Christ

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in one of her poems, has pictured with rare beauty the effect of Christ’s death upon two seraphim who lingered a little behind the hosts of heaven who had gathered that day round the cross. One of them, as he thinks of the meaning of the wonderful sacrifice, is troubled by the thought that men will now have more reason to love God than even the angels have. The other remonstrates, saying, “Do we love not?” “Yes, but not as man shall,” he answered:
Oh! not with this blood on us—and this face,
Still, haply, pale with sorrow that it bore
In our behalf, and tender ever more
With nature all our won, upon us gazing
Nor yet with these forgiving hands upraising
Their reproachful wounds, alone to bless!
Alas, Creator! shall we love Thee less
Than mortals shall?

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