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

The theme of angst is portrayed in Mahler's Symphony No. 6 (" The Tragic ") and in Alban Berg's poignant Violin Concerto dedicated, " To the memory of an angel ".

Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".

The earliest known Christian image of an angel, in the Cubicolo dell ' Annunziazione in the Catacomb of Priscilla, which is dated to the middle of the third century, is without wings.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

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.

A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

An angel appears to Daniel and explains that the demonic " prince of Persia " is in opposition, but that Michael " the great prince of Israel " will save them, as the only one who will " stand up.

In this book Habakkuk is lifted by an angel to Babylon to provide Daniel with some food while he is in the lion's den.

Each of the gates is made of a single pearl, and there is an angel standing in each one.

The archangel of fire is Michael, the angel is Aral, the ruler is Seraph, the king is Djin, and the fire elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called salamanders.

The archangel of air is Raphael, the angel is Chassan, the ruler is Aral, the king is Paralda, and the air elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called sylphs.

The archangel of water is Gabriel, the angel is Taliahad, the ruler is Tharsis, the king is Nichsa and the water elementals are called Ondines.

Although mainstream Christianity attributes this passage to the fall of Lucifer because verse 20 says that this king will not be joined with the others in burial, but rather be cast out of the grave, most scholars believe that these passages cannot be about a fallen angel, assuming that the king referred to in these passages is killed.

From the third season on, they are frequently joined by Andrew ( John Dye ), the angel of death ( who first appeared as a recurring character in season two ).

In August 2004, Thiel made a $ 500, 000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10. 2 % of the company and joined Facebook's board.

He also joined the Board of Directors of BANSEA, the local angel investing group.

Seth was permitted to reach the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being attacked by the guardian angel with his flaming sword, and beheld the Trees of Life and Knowledge, which had joined to form a single tree, said to symbolise the harmony of science and religion in the Kabbalah.

* Zauriel-The fallen angel and former member of the JLA who was sent by heaven to kill Blue Devil, but joined as his replacement while Blue Devil sorted out his own issues.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Another interpretation of the authorship comes from the Septuagint superscription, ὲν χειρὶ ἀγγήλου αὐτοῦ, which can be read as either " by the hand of his messenger " or as " by the hand of his angel ".

The work tells of the building of The Temple and relates that construction was hampered by demons until the angel Michael gave the king a magical ring.

The two Marys discover the empty tomb, guarded by an angel, and Jesus himself tells them to tell the disciples to meet him in Galilee.

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 ".

# Machon: The fifth Heaven is under the administration of Samael, an angel referred to as evil by some, but who is to others merely a dark servant of God.

Verses 33-39 state that Habakkuk is in Judea and after making some stew, he ’ s told by an angel to take the stew to Daniel, who is in Babylon in the lion ’ s den.

Before the birth of Benjamin, Jacob is renamed " Israel " by an angel ( and ).

Jacob struggles with the angel, by Rembrandt ( Gemäldegalerie, Berlin ).

According to this account, the birth of John was foretold by the angel Gabriel to Zachariah, while Zachariah was performing his functions as a priest in the temple of Jerusalem.

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.

* The twisted nerve ( gid hanasheh ): the sciatic nerve, as according to the Bible ( Genesis 32: 33 ) the patriarch Jacob's was damaged when he fought with an angel, cannot be eaten and is removed by nikkur

In both these Annunciations, Leonardo used a formal arrangement, such as in Fra Angelico's two well-known pictures of the same subject, of the Virgin Mary sitting or kneeling to the right of the picture, approached from the left by an angel in profile with rich flowing garment, raised wings and bearing a lily.

At the same time the Septuagint translates the last clause of Malachi 1: 1, " by the hand of his messenger ," and the Targum reads, " by the hand of my angel, whose name is called Ezra the scribe.

In Smith's 1832 history, he said he was visited by " an angel of the Lord ", who mentioned the Book of Mormon prophet " Moroni " as the last engraver of the golden plates ; however, Smith's account did not say whether or not the angel was referring to himself as Moroni.

As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.

Because of his instrumentality in the restoration of the gospel, Moroni is commonly identified by Latter-day Saints as the angel mentioned in, " having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.

This angel, not identified with Moroni, was a gilded wooden weathervane sculpted by an unknown artist in 1846.

*** An oblation is an offering ; the pure, holy, spotless victim is now offered, with a prayer that God may accept the offering and command his holy angel to carry the offering to God's altar on high, so that those who receive the Body and Blood of Christ " may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing ".

Jewish literature such as the Book of Enoch mentions Metatron as an archangel, called the " highest of the angels " and the " heavenly scribe ", though acceptance of this angel is not canonical in all branches of the faith.

Kneeling over him is an angel, holding a heavenly crown.

In addition, Smith claimed that he received the true authority of priesthood, which he divided in to two orders, Aaronic ( lesser ) and Melchizedek ( greater ), directly from those who held it anciently: namely, John the Baptist for the Aaronic, who returned as an angel and gave him and Oliver Cowdery the authority to baptize, and Peter, James, and John, the Apostles, who returned as heavenly messengers and gave Smith and Cowdery the authority to lead the church just as the Apostles had done anciently, this being the Melchizedek authority.

When there is a fire in his dormitory, he borrows some props from the school's drama department, dresses up as a heavenly angel, and rescues his friends.

According to Leo Trepp, in late Judaism the belief developed that " The people have a heavenly representative, a guardian angel.

In Serbian epic tradition, Lazar is said to have been visited by an angel of God on the night before battle, and offered a choice between an earthly or a heavenly kingdom, which choice would result in a peaceful capitulation or bloody defeat, respectively, at the Battle of Kosovo.

Attaining this level of self-discipline is perhaps the most difficult and painful accomplishment any human being can make ; but the end goal, to become like an angel on earth ( an " earthly angel and a heavenly man ", as the church hymns put it ), is the reason monastics are held in such high esteem.

The angel Abariel, after commanding Zauriel to surrender his sword, gives Zauriel this heavenly weapon " until such time we may need it back ", formerly wielded by the Archangel Michael himself, when he joins the Shadowpact ; it is said to be even more capable than the Trident of Lucifer wielded by the Blue Devil, and " has great and terrible powers far beyond your sword's meager abilities ".

is a fallen angel of apocryphal Jewish and Christian tradition that ranked in the heavenly hierarchy as one of the Grigori ( meaning " Watchers " in Greek ).

The following verses ( 10: 28 – 59 ) reveal that Ezra had a vision of the heavenly Jerusalem, the true city of Zion, which the angel of the Lord invites him to explore.

There follows a strange and extended ritual, where in order to confer on her immortality, the angel shares with Aseneth a magical honeycomb, and is told of her heavenly counterpart Metanoia ( Repentance ).

Angels cannot be seen as they are heavenly beings but that can take on different forms, including human. One well known example is when Allah sent the angel Jibreel ( Gabriel ) to Maryam ( Mary ) in the form of a man, as Allah says in the Qur ' an:

As the angel nearer to God, or perhaps as a manifestation of the power of God himself, Yahoel is said to be also the heavenly choirmaster, the one who teaches the angels their hymn, who has the control over " the threats and attacks of the reptiles ", the angel with the chief task of protecting and watching over Israel.