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MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 359 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ") , an Old Testament name, synonymous with Micaiah or
Micah
  (Num. xiii. 13; I Chron. v.13 et passim). In the book of Daniel the name is given to one of the
chief
  " princes " of the heavenly host, the guardian
angel
  or " prince " of
Israel
  (Dan. x. 13, 21; xii. I; cf. Enoch xx. 5 and possibly Mal. iii. I), and as such he naturally appears in Jewish
theosophy
  as the greatest of all angels, the first of the four (or seven) who surround the throne of God, and the antagonist of Sammael, the enemy of God. He holds the
secret
  of the mighty "word" by which God created heaven and earth (Enoch lxix. 14), and was " the
angel
  who spoke to Moses in the
Mount
  " (Acts vii. 38). It was through Babylonian and Persian influence that names were given to the angels, and according to Kohut (Jiid. Angel. p. 24) Michael is parallel to Vohumano, " Ahura's first masterpiece," one of the Zoroastrian Amesha-spentas or archangels, It is as guardian angel of
Israel
 , or of the
Church
 , the true Israel, that Michael appears in Jude 9 and Rev. xii. 7. This latter passage is of distinctly pre-Christian origin; it is not the Child that overthrows Satan, the figure of the
Messiah
  is ousted by that of Michael. There is also here a relic of the primeval Babylonian myth of the struggle between the light god Marduk and the forces of chaotic darkness. In the Western
Church
  the festival of St Michael and All Angels (Michaelmas) is celebrated on the 29th of September; it appears to have grown out of a local celebration of the dedication of a church of St Michael either at
Mount
  Garganus in Apulia or at Rome, and was a
great
  day by the beginning of the 9th century. The Greek Church dedicates the 8th of November to St Michael, St Gabriel and All Angels.


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