Judas arranges to have Martha employed by the roadhouse owner Rufus Brown, but the angel returns and advises Martha to flee.

`` If you substitute ' atom ' for ' angel ', the problem is not insoluble, given the metallic content of the pin in question ''.

Writer James Russell Lowell referred to Alcott in his poem " Studies for Two Heads " as " an angel with clipped wings ".

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.

Smith said he had been in contact with an angel Moroni, who showed him the plates ' location and had been grooming him for a role as a religious leader.

The prophet has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells him, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city ( i. e., Israel and Jerusalem ).

Many scholars have argued that Matthew is simply an expanded version of Mark, but it is also a creative reinterpretation of the source, stressing Jesus ' teachings as much as his acts, and making subtle changes in order to stress Jesus ' divine nature – Mark's " young man " who appears at Jesus ' tomb, for example, becomes a radiant angel in Matthew.

The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".

The angel Israfil, is waiting for Allah to give him the command to sound the horn which will signal the beginning of the Judgment Day.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

It is notable for being the location where Muhammad received his first revelations from God through the angel Jibreel, also known as Gabriel to Christians.

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

reads: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, " Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead.

Noah is later reviled by his people and reproached by them for being a mere human messenger and not an angel ( X: 72-74 ).

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

* Numbers 22: 22, 23 " and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him.

Because of Skuld's lack of magic power, Noble Scarlet lacked the full unequivocal obedience an angel must have for her goddess.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

It is through the knowledge of the names of these servants that an actor is able to control the angel and djinn for his or her purposes.

The Lammasu was originally depicted as having a king's head, a lion's body, and an eagle's wings, but because of the artistic beauty of the wings, these rapidly became the most prominent part in imagery ; wings later came to be bestowed on men, thus forming the stereotypical image of an angel.

The Epistle to Diognetus ( 7 ) speaks of God sending to men " a minister or angel or archon ," etc.

The first English monarch to be recorded as giving gifts of small silver coins to the poor is John who in 1213 gave 13 pence to each of 13 poor men at a ceremony in Rochester — the number being symbolic of the Twelve Apostles together with either Jesus or an angel.

In Matthew he becomes an angel and in Luke, written for a non-Jewish audience, he becomes two angel-like men.

" Another idiom: " Az men redt fun der malech, kumt der galech ", which translates to " Talk about the angel, and here comes the priest.

For instance they point to Matthew's account of the appearance of an angel in a dream, to Joseph ; the wise men from the east ; the massacre of the innocents ; and the flight to Egypt, which do not appear in Luke, which instead describes the appearance of an angel to Mary ; the worldwide census ; the birth in a manger, and the choir of angels.

women, they ain't gonna need no men " " They got a head like a sweet angel and they walk just like a natural man.

" In this view, the function of the guardian angel is to lead men to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The passage in Exodus concerning Moses and Zipporah reaching an inn, contain four of the most ambiguous and awkward sentences in Biblical text ; the text appears to suggest that something, possibly God or an angel, attacks either Gershom or Moses, until a circumcision is carried out by Zipporah on whichever of the two men it was that was being attacked.

One reading posits Zenia as a kind of guardian angel to the women, saving them from unworthy men.

According to the Bible, this was a miraculous event in which an angel killed 185, 000 men in Sennacherib's army.

Rifian ( Berber ) men of Morocco had the custom of shaving the head but leaving a single lock of hair on either the crown, left, or right side of the head, so that the angel Azrael is able "... to pull them up to heaven on the Last Day.

( In Matthew 28: 2 it is " an angel of the Lord " dressed in white that appears and, in Luke 24: 4, there are two " men " ( Greek: andres )).

According to the Book of Enoch, Sariel ( same angel as archangel Saraqael ( communicants of God ) & Azrael ( whom God helps ) according to Al-Qur ' an, angel of death, malaku I-mawati ) was one of the leaders of angels who lusted after the daughters of men.

As the song describes, the two men do not give up in their efforts to rescue the angel girl, no matter how many times they fail.

He appeared to the angels as an angel, and to men as a man.

However, in the Sibylline Oracles, Araqiel is referred to not as a fallen angel, or Watcher, but as one of the 5 angels who lead the souls of men to judgement, the other 4 being Ramiel, Uriel, Samiel, and Azazel.

In Catalonia, the pessebre or nativity scene is often a reproduction of a pastoral scene with a traditional Catalan masia ( farmhouse ) as a central setting with the child in a manger, with outlying scenes of a washerwoman by a river, a woman spinning, shepherds walking towards the manger area laden with gifts and herding their sheep, the three wise men approaching on horseback, an annunciation scene with the angel and shepherds, the star pointing the way, etc., all of this usually set on moss to represent grass, with cork used to represent mountains or cliffs.

The Three Witnesses is the collective name for three men connected with the early Latter Day Saint movement, who signed a statement to witness that an angel had shown them the golden plates from which Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon.

Warned by a marionette angel not to experiment further but encouraged by a demon to do as he pleases, he is sent by a wooden messenger to a cafe meeting with the two street-map men, identified as ' Cornelius ' and ' Valdes ', who give him a briefcase of magical devices.

Bertrade lived on until 1117 ; William of Malmesbury says: " Bertrade, still young and beautiful, took the veil at Fontevraud Abbey, always charming to men, pleasing to God, and like an angel.

The angel of death put a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife.