Abdiel
A Hebrew word meaning servant of God. The name of an angel mentioned by the Jewish Cabalists. He is represented in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book V, lines 894-7, 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 :
Among the faithless, faithful
only he;
Among innumerable false, unmoved,
unshaken unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty be kept, his love, his zeal. (894-7)
The name Abdiel became the synonym of honor and faithfulness.
Based on Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences by Albert C. Mackey M. D.
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