Abdiel


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Abdiel

faithful seraph who withstood Satan when urged to revolt. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]
See: Angel

Abdiel

seraph who refused to join Satan’s rebellion. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Thus farr his bold discourse without controule Had audience, when among the Seraphim ABDIEL, then whom none with more zeale ador'd The Deitie, and divine commands obei'd, Stood up, and in a flame of zeale severe The current of his fury thus oppos'd.
So spake the Seraph ABDIEL faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
I don't clearly know what Paradise is, and what angels are; yet taking it to be the most glorious region I can conceive, and angels the most elevated existences--if one of them--if Abdiel the Faithful himself" (she was thinking of Milton) "were suddenly stripped of the faculty of association, I think he would soon rush forth from 'the ever-during gates,' leave heaven, and seek what he had lost in hell.
Additionally, incumbent national president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Domingo Egon Cayosa, former IBP president Abdiel Dan Elijah Fajardo, human rights lawyer Atty.
Hontiveros-Baraquel and Leila de Lima; former Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) president Abdiel Fajardo; IBP President Domingo Egon Cayosa, former Supreme Court spokesman Theodore Te; lawyers Minerva Ambrosio, Serafin Salvador, and Philip Sawali.
Solicitor General Jose Calida has urged Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) President Abdiel Abdiel Dan Elijah Fajardo to resign for having allowed Peter Joemel Advincula to hold a press conference at the organization's head office.
The national board of the IBP and its president Abdiel Dan Fajardo, in particular, have been at the receiving end of criticisms afterAdvinculaarrived at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines office in Pasig City, Monday noon, to face the media.
Abdiel Dan Elijah Fajardo, Professor on International Law Asst.
Calida even urged IBP President Abdiel Fajardo to review his criminal law for issuing a statement that the reopening of the rebellion case constitutes double jeopardy.
Abdiel Bocarando, Chase Hayden and Ulysses Ruiz also scored for Wauconda (5-3-2, 3-1-1).