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Upon the protagonist's death, the angel Gabriel descends to Earth, in order to comfort the spirit of the fallen hero and take him to Heaven. [86] [87] In August Wilson's Fences (1985), the mentally handicapped character Gabriel believes with every fiber of his soul that he is the Archangel Gabriel. He carries around a trumpet on him always, and ...
Archangel, leader of the Powers along with Archangel Gabriel as the subordinate [citation needed] Angel of Birth, Household and Harvest [citation needed] Hanibal [citation needed] Ancient Mesopotamian religion: Angel of the god Baal Hadad "Grace of Baal" or "Baal is Gracious" Haniel: Anael, Aniel, Hanael Christianity, Judaism
Surah 32:11 mentions the angel of death identified with Azrael. [17] Surah 6:61 mentions a multitude of angels of death interpreted as assistants of Azrael. [18] When the unbelievers in hell cry out for help, an angel, also identified with Azrael, will appear on the horizon and tell them that they have to remain. [19]
(Tobit 12,15) The other two angels mentioned by name in the Bibles used by Catholics and Protestants are the archangel Michael and the angel Gabriel; Uriel is named in 2 Esdras (4:1 and 5:20) and Jerahmeel is named in 2 Esdras 4:36, a book that is regarded as canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches ...
The Hebrew Bible uses the term מלאכי אלהים (malakhey Elohim; Angels of God), [19] The Hebrew word for angel is "malakh", which means messenger, for the angels מלאכי יי (malakhey Adonai; Angels of the Lord) are God's messengers to perform various missions - e.g. 'angel of death'; [20] בני אלהים (b'nei elohim; sons of God ...
In 2 Samuel 24:15-16, the destroying angel almost destroyed Jerusalem but was recalled by God. In 1 Chronicles 21:15, the same "Angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against the Hebrews' enemies". Later, in 2 Kings 19:35, the angel kills 185,000 Assyrian ...
Samael is also depicted as the angel of death and one of the seven archangels, the ruler over the Fifth Heaven and commander of two million angels such as the chief of all the destroying angels. According to the apocryphal Gedulat Moshe ( The Apocalypse of Moses , "The Ascension of Moses" in The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg ) Samael is ...
The Lichfield Angel is a limestone carving of the archangel Gabriel. [1]: 16–17 It is a portion of a larger piece, since lost, and the three surviving fragments measure 635 by 370 millimetres (25.0 in × 14.6 in) at their widest extent when fitted together. [2]: 165 The stone is around 100 millimetres (3.9 in) thick.