Holy Scripture
Sirach 17:17
A church father on this verse
“We may interpret that the rulers placed by God over every people are the angels to whom he entrusted the care of each people, according to that word of Deuteronomy, "He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the angels of God." And one reads in the book of Daniel that there is a head of the Greek…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17For in the division of the nations of the whole earth He set a ruler over every people; But Israel is the Lord’s portion:
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15Their ways are ever before him, And shall not be hidden from his eyes.
— Sirach 17:17 —
19Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, And his eyes are continually upon their ways.