Metatron’s Robe, Crown, and Divine Name
1 Rabbi Ishmael said: Metatron, the Prince of the Presence, said to me: “Because of the love with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loved me more than all the children of heaven, He made me a garment of glory on which were fixed all kinds of lights, and He dressed me in it. 2 And He made me a robe of honor on which were fixed all kinds of beauty, splendor, brilliance and majesty. 3 And he made me a royal crown in which were fixed forty-nine costly stones like the light of the globe of the sun. 4 For its splendor spread in the four quarters of the Araboth Raqiaʿ, and through the seven heavens, and in the four quarters of the world. And he put it on my head. 5 And He called me the Lesser YHWH in the presence of all His heavenly household, as it is written: ‘For my name is in him.’”
Texts in conversation
Compare Philo, On Dreams 1.227–228 and 3 Enoch 12:5
Classical · Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
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Philo, On Dreams 1.227–228
Classical3 Enoch 12:5
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses · Hebrew Book of EnochReferences
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