Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"

[Rob Wick]

If Stanton was a religious man, I could see angels. But if he wasn't (and I admit to not knowing either way) ages would make more sense. Stanton was deeply intellectual and once Lincoln died, he knew it would be up to posterity to determine how Lincoln would be remembered. If he was a religious man, why not something like "Now he belongs to God" or "He's in God's hands now" instead of invoking angels? It would have fit into Lincoln's character in those last years of his life, especially given the second inaugural address. That he would mention angels and not God never made sense to me. Ages, on the other hand, would be something an intellectual would consider.

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Rob