Angels as watchers leave the temple; no vision

Symmachus says: “they became unsettled, blind in the exits, they were stained in blood, so as not to be able to touch their garment.” Scripture calls the angels watchers, as in Daniel. And these were those through whom perhaps also the law through Moses was given according to “for if the law spoken through angels.” These, then, attending upon her and the divine temple, having been shaken transferred. For Josephus in the things about the capture narrates that “by night the priests, having approached into the sanctuary, as was custom for them toward the liturgies, first said they were perceiving a movement, and after these things a crowded voice: let us transfer from here”—when also according to Symmachus they became unsettled and wanderers and blind, he says, in the exits. For there was not a vision distinguishing, not a prophet, nor a leader; for they failed when he came for whom it was laid away, who was expectation of nations.