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RAPHAEL (Hebrew smm, " God heals ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 900 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAPHAEL (
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Hebrew smm, "
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God heals ")  , an
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angel who in human disguise and under the name of Azarias (" Yahweh
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helps ") accompanies Tobias in his adventurous
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journey and conquers the demon Asmodaeus (
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Book of
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Tobit) . He is said (Tob. xii . 15) to be " one of the seven
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holy angels [archangels] which
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present the prayers of the
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saints and go in before the
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glory of the Holy One." In the Book of
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Enoch (c. xx.)
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Raphael is " the angel of the
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spirits of men," and it is his business to " heal the
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earth which the angels have defiled." In later
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Midrash Raphael appears as the angel commissioned to put down the evil spirits that vexed the sons of
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Noah with plagues and sicknesses after the
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Flood, and he it was who taught men the use of simples and furnished materials for the " Book of Noah," the earliest
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treatise on materia medica .

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