Ithu´riel

(4 syl. ), a cherub sent by Gabriel to find out Satan. He finds him squatting like a toad beside Eve as she lay asleep, and brings him before Gabriel. (The word means “God’s discovery.”)—Milton, Paradise Lost , iv. 788 (1665). Ithuriel’s Spear , the spear of the angel Ithuriel, whose slightest touch exposed deceit. Hence, when Satan squatted like a toad “close to the ear of Eve,” Ithuriel only touched the creature with his spear, and it resumed the form of Satan. ...for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper, but returns Of force to its own likene . Milton, Paradise Lost iv. (1665). Ithuriel , the guardian angel of Judas Iscariot. After Satan entered into the heart of the traitor, Ithuriel was given to Simon Peter as his second angel.—Klopstock, The Me iah , iii. and iv. (1748, 1771).