Angels And Sons Of God

Plerumque Angelos filios Dei vocat Scriptura; quia ex nullo homine generantur animae. Itaque viros fideles filios suos dicere non est aspernatus Deus. Sicut ergo viri probabilis vitae filii Dei vocantur: ita quorum carnalia sunt opera, hos filios dicimus carnis Scripturarum auctoritate. Dicit enim Johannes Evangelista: Quia quotquot Dominum Jesum receperunt, dedit eis potestatem filios Dei fieri, his qui credunt in nomine ejus, qui non ex sanguinibus, neque ex voluntate carnis, neque ex voluntate viri, sed ex Deo nati sunt. Sanctus Ambrosius Mediolanensis, De Noe et Arca, Caput IV

Scripture often calls angels sons of God, for from no man were their souls generated. Thus faithful men are named sons, not being despised by God. Likewise, therefore, men of commendable life are called sons of God, 1 as those of carnal works with Scriptural authority we name sons of the flesh. 2 For John the Evangelist says 'However many received the Lord Jesus, He gave to them power to be sons of God, those who believe in His name, those who were born, not from blood, not from the will of the flesh, not from the will of man, but from God.' 3 Saint Ambrose, On Noah and the Ark, Chap 4 1 Job 1.6 2 cf Rom 9.8 3 Jn 1.12-13