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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

Catholic Evangelist. - Every major proclamation of
God was on top of a mountain, so to speak, and
thus this made sense given our mission: to publish
openly the Word of God without compromise.
Satisfied with this, it now left the mystery of the
"Sword."
St. Augustine says about angelic names,
"The name of an angel belongs to his office, not to his
nature. You ask what the name of his nature is. He is a
spirit. You ask what the name of his office is. He is an
angel."
I did know that the “The Sword of Gilead”
was not this angel’s name, but his title and the
word “Avenging” was his purpose and ministry.
In my research, it became clear that swords are at
times synonymous with God’s angels, and so now
this made sense of “Sword of” being the “Angel of.”
For example, the archangel Uriel - his name
meaning either "Fire of God", or "God is my Light."
Not named in the scriptures, Uriel is
nonetheless prominent in Hebrew and Christian
angelology. In the Apocrypha, Uriel stands at the
gates of Eden with a huge swirling flaming sword,
preventing anyone from entering the verdant
place. Genesis 3:24, says regarding the banishment
due to the fall of Adam, “After he drove the man out,
he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden

cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth
to guard the way to the tree of life.”

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