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See also:GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, See also:man of See also:God)
, in the See also:Bible, the heavenly messenger (see See also:ANGEL) sent to See also:Daniel to explain the See also:vision of the See also:ram and the he-See also:goat, and to communicate the pre-diction of the Seventy See also:Weeks (See also:Dan. viii
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He was also employed to announce the See also:birth of See also: Thus, according to the See also:Targum Pseudo-See also:Jonathan, he was the See also:man who showed the way to See also:Joseph (Gen. See also:xxxvii . 15); and in Deut. xxxiv . 6 it is affirmed that he, along with Michael, Uriel, Jophiel, Jephephiah and the Metatron, buried the See also:body of See also:Moses . In the Targum on 2 Chron. xxxu . 21 he is named as the angel who destroyed the See also:host of See also:Sennacherib; and in similar writings of a still later period he is spoken of as the spirit who presides over See also:fire, See also:thunder, the ripening of the fruits of the See also:earth and similar processes . |
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