Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire - (Hebrews 1:7.) х ho (G3588) poioon (G4160) tous (G3588) angelous (G32) autou (G847) pneumata (G4151) kai (G2532) tous (G3588) leitourgous (G3011) autou (G847) puros (G4442) floga (G5395).] The Greek article accompanies "angels" and "ministers," and so marks them as the subjects; and "spirits," and a 'flame of fire,' predicates, or attributes predicated respectively of the former. So also here the subjects, "angels" and "ministers," are marked by being placed in the Hebrew first, and the attributes predicated of them, "spirits," or rather 'WINDS,' and "a flaming fire," second. God maketh His angelic messengers the directing powers acting by the winds and the flaming lightning, when these are required for His purpose. Hengstenberg, after Muis, argues that the context is concerning the visible glory of God, as manifested in the material creation, in connection with Genesis 1:1-31, the second day's work of creation, not concerning immaterial and invisible beings.
Compare also the parallel passages, Psalms 105:32; Psalms 148:8, "fire ... and stormy wind fulfilling his word." He therefore translates, 'He maketh winds His angels, and flaming fire His servants.' But if this were the construction, Paul would have said, 'Who maketh flaming fire His minister;' not 'His ministers' (plural). Besides, Hebrews 1:7 decides that it is of angels the Psalmist speaks. The connection in which the angels, who are ordinarily invisible, are introduced here among the material objects of nature is probably this: the Psalmist is speaking of God's visible chalet of clouds, and naturally introduces His spiritual ministers, the angels, who act through the winds and the lightning flame, which are His manifest retinue in His mighty operations of nature. The winds and the flaming lightning fire are modes of the manifestation of God's spiritual ministers, the angels. As God Himself is said, in Psalms 104:3, to 'walk upon the wings of the wind,' so angels, His retinue, manifest their agency as His attendant ministers in wind and fire. Thus angels were with Him in the tempest and lightning at Sinai (Deuteronomy 33:2). At the coming judgment "a fiery stream" is represented as 'issuing from before Him,' and "thousand thousands" of angels as 'ministering unto Him' (Daniel 7:10). So in Judges 13:20, "the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame." Compare Psalms 103:20-21.