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1 Enoch names Remiel as the angel God gave authority over those who rise from the dead. The Apocalypse of Zephaniah also uses the rare name for this angel, describing the great angel placed over the abyss and Hades where all souls are held.
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1000+ CE
1 Enoch 20:8
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5 Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. 6 Saraqâel, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. 7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. 8 Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
Apocalypse of Zephaniah 6:15
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14 I fell upon my face, and I worshiped him. 15 He said to me, “Pay attention. Do not worship me. I am not the Lord Almighty, but am the great angel, Eremiel, who is over the abyss and Hades, the one in which all of the souls are imprisoned from the end of the Flood, which came upon the earth, until this day.” 16 Then I inquired of the angel, “What is the place to which I have come?” He said to me, “It is Hades.”
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Notes and References
... Of all the tours of hell the Apocalypse of Zephaniah, which is perhaps the most idiosyncratic, shows the closest links to some parts of the Book of the Watchers. The name of the archangel who appears to Zephaniah at his moment of need is Eremiel. This is not a common angelic name, but similar names appear in a few other texts. In 2 Baruch 55:3 the angel Ramiel is in charge of true visions. In 4 Ezra 4:36 the angel Jeremiel converses with Ezra about the souls in the chambers; his function is not explicitly noted. The Syriac version of 4 Ezra calls this angel Ramiel, as in 2 Baruch, also a Syriac text. 1 Enoch 20:8 mentions Remiel, the angel ‘whom God set over those who rise.’ In both 1 Enoch and 4 Ezra, these similarly named angels are associated with the fate of the dead. This makes probable some relationship to the angel Eremiel in the Apocalypse of Zephaniah. ...
Himmelfarb, Martha
Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature
(p. 151) University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983
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