Angels. — The idea of a special guardian angel for each individual has possibly been favoured by this verse, though it had its origin in heathen belief:
“By every man, as he is born, there stands
A spirit good, a holy guide of life.”
MENANDER.
Here, however, it is not one particular individual, but all who have fulfilled the conditions of Psalms 91:9-10 who are the objects of angelic charge. (Comp. Psalms 34:7.) (For the well-known quotation of this and Psalms 91:12 in the Temptation, see Matthew 4:6; Luke 4:10-11; with Notes in New Testament Commentary.)