He is not named in either the New Testament or the Quran , but later Christian tradition identified him with healing and as the angel who stirred waters in the Pool of Bethesda in John —4, [ 5 ] and in Islam, where his name is Israfil , he is understood to be the unnamed angel of Quran , standing eternally with a trumpet to his lips, ready to announce the Day of Judgment.
In Gnostic tradition, Raphael is represented on the Ophite Diagram. When used in the latter sense it is translated as " angel ". Raphael first appears in two works of this period, 1 Enoch, a collection of originally independent texts from the 3rd century BCE, and the Book of Tobit , from the early 2nd century BCE.
In the text he acts as a physician and expels demons, [ 19 ] using an extraordinary fish to bind the demon Asmodeus and to heal Tobit's eyes, while in 1 Enoch he is "set over all disease and every wound of the children of the people", [ 19 ] and binds the armies of Azazel and throws them into the valley of fire. Rashi writes, "Although Raphael's mission included two tasks, they were considered a single mission since they were both acts that saved people.
The Angels were not all of one opinion however, with differing views and reasons. The Angel of Love and Angel of Justice both favoured Man's creation as he would be affectionate and loving, alongside practicing Justice. The Angel of Truth and the Angel of Peace opposed his creation however, as he would be full of lies and be quarrelsome.
To invalidate his protest, God cast the Angel of Truth down from Heaven to Earth, and when the others cried out against the treatment of their companion, He said, "Truth will spring back out of the earth.
