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"year 0"?

"Satan falling from his position at about the year 0 following a dispute with Michael"

What calendar is being used here? Last I knew, the common western calendar doesn't include a 0 year.

Rav Malach (רב מלאך)= archangel

Amr Ashraf

The archangels in Islam are known to be 7 written on the page, some of them are not written in the Kor'an because not all of the religion is taken from the Kor'an some are taken from al Hadith. In some Hadith's (words spoken by the prophet Muhammed pbuh) there are stories told of these archangels. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.204.159.162 (talk • contribs).

Contradicting statements in the intro

In the intro it states that “Archangels are the highest rank of angel in the hierarchy of angels.”

This is then followed by the statement that “A common misconception is that archangels are the highest rank of angel.”

This two statements obviously contradict each other. 2A06:C701:40BF:9400:F808:CCE3:C587:53FC (talk) 18:56, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

arch not harch. Also the γγ is pronounced ng so usually transcribed as such

--2A02:8071:B685:2C00:FDC3:4139:25A7:5E26 (talk) 23:47, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Contradictory lede

The lead opens with describing archangels as the highest rank in De Coelesti Hierarchia. This is certainly supported by the Biblical passages (i.e. Michael the Archangel leading the heavenly host in battle in Revelation 12:7-10, though of course he's not directly called an archangel there), but this is not a canon work; it's post-biblical. However later in the lede it says the exact opposite: "A common misconception is that archangels constitute the highest rank of angel in Christianity." The source is an 1867 evangelical Methodist magazine, which contains the assertion that the only reliable source is the Bible. I'm guessing this is by a certain Dr. William Cooke, who was a theologian and, judging from his work, an apologist—not exactly a neutral observer or historian. I don't think this really passes the bar for a citable secondary source.

Adding to this issue is that the Hierarchy of angels page contradicts the assertion in the lede. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite puts archangels in the lowest order. How could this all be cleared up? Delukiel (talk) 19:47, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]