Today’s episode walks through two closely connected articles from Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 50. In Article 3, Aquinas affirms that the number of angels is vast beyond human reckoning, reflecting God’s generosity and the perfection of creation. Then in Article 4, he makes a striking claim: each individual angel is its own species. Because they are immaterial, angels cannot be multiplied through matter like material beings. Instead, every angel is a distinct kind of being—utterly unique in essence. Together, these articles emphasize the angelic order’s diversity, magnitude, and spiritual nature.
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