St Melito of Sardis actually wrote
“our Lord Jesus Christ, that we may prove to your love that this Being is perfect reason, the Word of God; He who was begotten before the light; He who is Creator together with the Father; He who is the Fashioner of man; He who is all in all; He who among the patriarchs is Patriarch; He who in the law is the Law; among the priests, Chief Priest; among kings, the Ruler; among prophets, the Prophet; among the angels, Archangel; in the voice of the preacher, the Word; among spirits, the Spirit; in the Father, the Son; in God, God; King for ever and ever. “
He clearly emphasises that Jesus is the superlative .
Or do you think he means Jesus is a patriarch with multiple children? No.
Your Adventist beliefs that Jesus is one of the archangels is rendered false again.
Btw the book of Daniel clearly shows that Michael is one of the princes of angels ie one of the archangels.
——St Melito of Sardis actually wrote
Among the Syriac fragments of Melito published by Cureton is one from a work “On Faith,” which contains a remarkable christological creed, an eloquent expansion of the Regula Fidei:
The Lord Jesus Christ is acknowledged as the perfect Reason, the Word of God; who was begotten before the light; who was Creator with the Father; who was the Fashioner of man; who was all things in all; Patriarch among the patriarchs, Law in the law, Chief Priest among the priests, King among the kings, Prophet among the prophets, Archangel among the angels; He piloted Noah, conducted Abraham, was bound with Isaac, exiled with Jacob, was Captain with Moses; He foretold his own sufferings in David and the prophets; He was incarnate in the Virgin; worshipped by the Magi; He healed the lame, gave sight to the blind, was rejected by the people, condemned by Pilate, hanged upon the tree, buried in the earth, rose from the dead and appeared to the apostles, ascended to heaven; He is the Rest of the departed, the Recoverer of the lost, the Light of the blind, the Refuge of the afflicted, the Bridegroom of the Church, the Charioteer of the cherubim, the Captain of angels; God who is of God, the Son of the Father, the King for ever and ever.
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xv.xix.html
——“Archangel among the angels” does not mean that Jesus was a literal angel rather than God…
Of course Jesus Christ isn’t a literal, created angel. That would be silly.
——While all of these phrases…
Archangel among the angels is INCLUDED in those phrases. Melito CLEARLY means to say that it is a divine title/description/role of, Christ. That’s why he said it, dude. Yes, even Bishop Melito of Sardis saw that.
Jesus Christ took on the role of Michael the archangel, as he did with the Captain of the host (angels). He is ALSO called the angel of the Lord, the angel of God, and the angel of the covenant. Is He a LITERAL, CREATED angel? NO, of course not, because that would silly. Jesus Christ is God.
By the way, Melito’s inclusion of the role “Captain of the angels” is a direct reference to “Captain of the host (OF ANGELS), in Joshua 5.
You are clearly wrong. No doubt about it.