Metatronn.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 567 The Angels (who were the teachers of our forefathers, as Raziel of Adam, Metatron of Moyses & so forth).

1624 W. Ingpen Secrets of Numbers xi. 59 There are nine Spheares in the sensible world, moued from the heauen we call Empireum, which is vnmoueable; vnto which Metattron serueth.

1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. 370 The soul of Messiah is president amongst them, or (as others say) the intelligence Metattron, which is called the first Creature, or the soul of the world, and was the rule of Moses.

1743 J. P. Stehelin tr. J. A. Eisenmenger Trad. of Jews (new ed.) II. 92 The Angel Metatron is reckon'd the Principal of all the Rest.

1794 J. Jamieson Vindic. Doctr. Script. I. vi. 67 The Cabbalists assert, that from Metatron ‘all the angels derive their lives, and all other advantages and comforts’.

1840 H. H. Milman Hist. Christianity I. ii. 73 According to one accredited tradition..the law was delivered ‘by the disposition of angels’;—according to another, this office was delegated to a single angel, sometimes called the angel of the Law, at others the Metatron.

1865 C. D. Ginsburg Kabbalah 27 The Kabbalistic description of Metatron is taken from the Jewish angelology of a much older date than this theosophy.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 812/1 The angel Metatron inhabits this world. He alone constitutes the world of pure spirit, and is..the visible manifestation of the Deity.

1914 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VII. 625/1 Michael and Meṭaṭron are sometimes interchanged.

1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism ii. 66 The Metatron mysticism which revolves round the person of Enoch..who..was raised..to the rank of first of the angels.

1988 Speculum 63 386 The angel Metatron comforted that..sage [sc. Nistaroth Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai] by revealing that the Holy One..intended to save the Jews from the persecution of the wicked Christian kingdom.