Michael es un nombre propio masculino común que generalmente se considera derivado de la pregunta retórica hebrea מי כאל, "¿Quién [es] como [el dios hebreo] El?", siendo así un nombre teofórico cuya respuesta es "no hay ninguno como El", o "no hay ninguno tan famoso y poderoso como Dios." Esta pregunta se conoce en latín como Quis ut Deus? Paradójicamente, el nombre también se interpreta a veces como "Uno que es como Dios."
“The archangel Michael took supreme command. He reassured their minds by his serenity. His countenance, wherein his soul was visible, expressed contempt for danger.”
“With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.”
“There is in heaven an accuser and a defender of man; the name of the former is Semoel and that of the latter Michael.”
“Mike is our Prometheus — but that's all. Mike keeps emphazing this. Thou art God, I am God, he is God — all that groks. Mike is a man like the rest of us. A superior man admittedly — a lesser man taught the things the Martians know, might have set himself up as a pipsqueak god. Mike is above that temptation. Prometheus… but that is all.”
“Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
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