-
So now, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel to spread terror and trembling before us.
-
Two Angels Rescue the Jews
Just as Eleazar was ending his prayer, the king arrived at the hippodrome with the animals and all the arrogance of his forces.
-
Then the most glorious, almighty, and true God revealed his holy face and opened the heavenly gates, from which two glorious angels of fearful aspect descended, visible to all but the Jews.
-
I pitied your groanings and gave you manna for food; you ate the bread of angels.
-
Then I asked an angel, “Who are these, my lord?”
-
Then I said to the angel, “Who is that young man who is placing crowns on them and putting palms in their hands?”
-
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.”
-
Limitations of the Human Mind
Then the angel that had been sent to me, whose name was Uriel, answered
-
But the angel who had come and talked with me held me and strengthened me and set me on my feet.
-
So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, as the angel Uriel had commanded me.
-
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.
-
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,
-
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.
-
The fifth way: they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by angels in profound quiet.
-
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.
-
whose throne is beyond measure and whose glory is beyond comprehension, before whom the hosts of angels stand trembling
-
“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.”
-
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
-
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.
-
and while Apollonius was going up with his armed forces to seize the money, angels on horseback with lightning flashing from their weapons appeared from heaven, instilling in them great fear and trembling.
-
For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery angel,