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The image of the angel has multiple descriptions in the Old Testament, reflecting Matthew's fondness for scriptural references. [3] Daniel 10:6 mentioned an angel with a face like lightning, and Ezekiel 1 since lightning associates with the creatures surrounding God. Daniel 7:9 described God himself as appearing white as snow. [4]
In Matthew 18:10 Jesus warns not to despise children because "their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." Luke 20:34–36 affirms that, like the angels, "those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die."
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. The English Standard Version translates the passage as: And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
In the Hebrew and Christian Bible, God is usually described in male terms in biblical sources, [1] with female analogy in Genesis 1:26–27, [i] [2] Psalm 123:2-3, [ii] and Luke 15:8–10; [iii] a mother in Deuteronomy 32:18, [iv] Isaiah 66:13, [v] Isaiah 49:15, [vi] Isaiah 42:14, [vii] Psalm 131:2; [viii] and a mother hen in Matthew 23:37 [ix] and Luke 13:34, [x] although never directly ...
(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 ...
According to 1 Peter 3:21–22, Christ had gone to Heaven and "angels and authorities and powers" had been made subject to him. [2] Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his work De Coelesti Hierarchia includes the thrones as the third highest of nine levels of angels. [3] According to the Second Book of Enoch, thrones are seen by Enoch in the ...
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Gabriel only appears by name in those two passages in Luke. In the first passage the angel identified himself as Gabriel, but in the second it is Luke who identified him as Gabriel. The only other named angels in the New Testament are Michael the Archangel (in Jude 1:9) and Abaddon (in Revelation 9:11).