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I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of angels.
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Then I asked an angel, “Who are these, my lord?”
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Then I said to the angel, “Who is that young man who is placing crowns on them and putting palms in their hands?”
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Then the angel said to me, “Go, tell my people how great and how many are the wonders of the Lord God that you have seen.”
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Limitations of the Human Mind
Then the angel that had been sent to me, whose name was Uriel, answered
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But the angel who had come and talked with me held me and strengthened me and set me on my feet.
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So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, as the angel Uriel had commanded me.
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Response to Ezra’s Complaints
When I had spoken these words, the angel who had come to me on a previous night was sent to me.
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and before the beautiful flowers were seen, and before the powers of movements were established, and before the innumerable hosts of angels were gathered together,
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Response to Ezra’s Questions
When I had finished speaking these words, the angel who had been sent to me on the former nights was sent to me again.
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The fifth way: they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by angels in profound quiet.
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The fourth order: they understand the rest that they now enjoy, being gathered into their chambers and guarded by angels in profound quiet and the glory waiting for them in the last days.
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whose throne is beyond measure and whose glory is beyond comprehension, before whom the hosts of angels stand trembling
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“Where is the angel Uriel, who came to me at first? For it was he who brought me into this overpowering bewilderment; my end has become corruption and my prayer a reproach.”
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Uriel’s Interpretation of the Vision
While I was speaking these words, the angel who had come to me at first came to me, and when he saw me
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But I sat in the field seven days, as the angel had commanded me, and I ate only of the flowers of the field, and plants were my food plants during those days.