“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…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — ON ECCLESIASTICUS 4:5
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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 hid from his eyes.
16Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.
— Sirach 17:17 —
18Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.
19Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.