Editing Gabriel (section)

==== Gabriel's horn ====
{{See also|Gabriel's Horn|label 1=Gabriel's Horn (Geometric figure)}}
A familiar [[Literary trope|image]] of Gabriel has him blowing a trumpet blast to announce the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. However, though the Bible mentions a trumpet blast preceding the resurrection of the dead, it never specifies Gabriel as the trumpeter. Different passages state different things: the angels of the Son of Man ([[Matthew 24]]:31); the voice of the Son of God ([[John 5]]:25–29); God's trumpet ([[First Epistle to the Thessalonians|I Thessalonians]] 4:16); seven angels sounding a series of blasts ([[Revelation 8]]–[[Revelation 11|11]]); or simply "a trumpet will sound" ([[First Epistle to the Corinthians|I Corinthians]] 15:52).<ref name="svm">S. Vernon McCasland, "Gabriel's Trumpet", ''Journal of Bible and Religion'' '''9''':3:159–161 (August 1941) {{JSTOR|1456405}}.</ref> Likewise the early Christian [[Church Fathers]] do not mention Gabriel as a [[trumpet]]er; and in Jewish and Muslim traditions, Gabriel is again not identified as a trumpeter.<ref>In Judaism, trumpets are prominent, and they seem to be blown by God himself, or sometimes [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]]. In Islamic tradition, it is [[Israfil]] who blows the trumpet, though he is not named in the [[Qur'an]].</ref>
The earliest known identification of Gabriel as a trumpeter comes from the Hymn of the Armenian Saint Nerses Shnorhali, "for Protection in the Night":<ref>{{Cite web|title=Peace Hour (After Sunset)|url=http://forums.orthodoxchristianity.net/attachments/the-peace-hour-pdf.18766/|url-status=dead|website=orthodoxchristianity.net|access-date=22 August 2021|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822213239/http://forums.orthodoxchristianity.net/attachments/the-peace-hour-pdf.18766/}}</ref>

<blockquote>The sound of Gabriel's trumpet on the last night, make us worthy to hear, and to stand on your right hand among the sheep with lanterns of inextinguishable light; to be like the five wise virgins, so that with the bridegroom in the bride chamber we, his spiritual brides may enter into glory.</blockquote>

In 1455, in [[Armenian art]], there is an illustration in an [[Armenians|Armenian]] manuscript showing Gabriel sounding his trumpet as the dead climb out of their graves.<ref>Walters MS 543, fol. 14.</ref>