Abdiel
Abdiel. [Hebrew, servant of God.] The name of an angel mentioned by the Jewish Cabalists. He is represented, in Milton's "Paradise Lost," as one of the seraphim, who, when Satan tried to stir up a revolt among the angels subordinate to his authority, alone and boldly withstood his traitorous designs.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found
Among the faithless; faithful only he;
Among innumerable false, unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
--Paradise Lost, Book V.
You shall invoke the Muse,--and certainly
she ought to be propitious to an author, who
in an apostatizing age, adheres with the faith
of Abdiel to the ancient form of adoration.
--Sir W. Scott.
An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction; including also familiar pseudonyms, surnames bestowed on eminent men, and analogous popular appellations often referred to in literature and conversation.
By William A. Wheeler.
Nineteenth Edition.
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1884
Rutgers Univesity Libraries
PN43.W562E19
Omnipædia Polyglotta
Francisco López Rodríguez
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