29/33 9) allow the commentators to fluctuate between the numbers of 1000, 3000, or 9000 angels; and the smallest of these might suffice for the slaughter of seventy of the Koreish, (Maracci, Alcoran, tom. 131.) Yet the same scholiasts confess that this angelic band was not visible to any mortal eye, (Maracci, p. |