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GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 16, ix . 21) . He was also employed to announce the See also:birth of See also:John the Baptist to See also:Zacharias, and that of the See also:Messiah to the Virgin See also:Mary (See also:Luke i . 19, 26) . Because he stood in the divine presence (see Luke i . 19; Rev. viii . 2; and cf . See also:Tobit xii . 15), both Jewish and See also:Christian writers generally speak of him as an See also:archangel . In the See also:Book of See also:Enoch " the four See also:great archangels" are See also:Michael, Uriel, Suriel or See also:Raphael, and See also:Gabriel, who is set over " all the See also:powers " and shares the See also:work of intercession . His name frequently occurs in the Jewish literature of the later See also:post-Biblical See also:period .

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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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