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Rh $undefined$  in the older sources of rabbinic literature in support of Philo's statement concerning the identity of the angels with the souls (Noë 4; De Gigan., and De Somn., loc. cit.), which is only found in the Kabbalah; comp., e.g., Zohar I, 7a, and note 444 on vol. II, p. 184.  $undefined$ Enoch 20.1; Yerushalmi 'Erubin 1, 19d, and Shemuel 23 (for the two last mentioned passages see Ginzberg, Unbekannte Sekte, 243 note 2; concerning the presence of the Shekinah in the assembly of ten, comp. also Sanhedrin 39a; Berakot 6a); Adamschriften, 27, speaks of nine hosts of angels.On the names of the ten classes of angels, found only in medieval sources, comp. Azilut (beginning); Maimonides, Yad ha-Hazakah, Yesode ha-Torah, 2.7; Zohar II, 43a; R. Moses ha-Darshan (from a manuscript in Gross, Gallia Judaica, 411); Konen 25; Derek Erez 2.The last two sources know only of five (six?) classes of angels; comp. the following note.The division of angels into seven classes mentioned in Enoch 61.10 is an older view which makes the number of classes correspond to the number of archangels and to the heavens.On the other hand, there is one view which counts three heavens (comp. note 22), and hence knows only of three archangels (see note 13 on vol. I, p. 54).Accordingly the idea that there are ten classes of angels is based on a combination of two older views.On the number of angels comp. Sifre N., 42; Sifre D., 51; Tehillim 68, 319; ER 6, 32 and 34; 17, 84; 29, 156, and 160; EZ 12, 193; Alphabet R. Akiba 21; Seder Rabba di-Bereshit 28; a midrashic quotation (the source is a somewhat different version of the description of Solomon's throne given in BHM. V, 34.) by R. Bahya on Gen. (beginning).The statement "as great as is the multitude of the angels, so great is the race of man" (Revelation of John towards the end) has a parallel in Tehillim, ''loc. cit.All these classes of angels reside at a very great distance from the Shekinah, whereas God is near to those that are broken-hearted (Ps. 34.19), because He loves them more than the angels; Alphabet R. Akiba 29; Midrash Shir 16b (frequently quoted by the mystics, as, e.g., Rokeah, Hasidut, at the end; Teshubah 28; Orehot Hayyim'' I, 101a).  $undefined$ PRE 4; Enoch 9.1; 40. 2–10 (here the reading is Phanuel instead of Uriel); 71.9.On these four archangels comp. vol. III, p. 232, and the note 440 appertaining to it.The very old view concerning the seven archangels (Enoch 20, 1–8; 81.5; 90.21–22: 12 Testaments, Levi 8.1, and in many other works of the pseudepigraphic literature, as well as rabbinic writings of the post-talmudic period as PRE, loc. cit., and particularly in mystic works; comp. 