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RAPHAEL, one of the three archangels of Heaven, seems to have been of Chaldean origin. He is one of the chief figures of the Book of Tobias (EJ XIII: 1549-1550)

The Parson quotes from the Book of Tobias 6.17, where the angel Raphael talks with Thobie about lechery, ParsT 906-910. [Thobie2]


From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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