Concerning Angels, Saint John of Damascus writes: "God is Himself the Maker and Creator of the Angels; for He brought them out of nothing into being and created them after His own image. They are an incorporeal race, a sort of spirit or immaterial fire, even as the divine David says that 'His Angels are spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire (Psalm 103:6).' By this, he has described their lightness and the ardor, heat, keenness, and sharpness with which they hunger for God and serve Him. He also has disclosed how they are borne to the regions above and are quite delivered from all material thought.

"But God said unto him: 'Thou fool; this night shall thy soul be required of thee; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?"

"And he said: 'This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods."

See here the great labors of a man without understanding! Instead of striving to kill the old man in himself and raise up the new man, he invests all his efforts in the pulling down of his old granaries, barns, and farms and building new ones. If his harvest is as abundant the following year, he will again have to labor to extend his old granaries or build yet more.

"Jesus spake a parable unto them saying, 'The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought within himself, saying: 'What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?' And he said: 'This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: Take thine ease: eat, drink and be merry!' But God said unto him: 'thou fool; this night shall thy soul be required of thee; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?' So that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God."