Recording angels areangels inJudaic,Christian, andIslamicangelology. Recording angels are assigned byGod with the task of recording the events, actions, and prayers of each individual human. These include bad sins and good deeds.
In theBook of Malachi 3:16, the prophet describesHeaven as having conferring angels, and "The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name." In Judaic thought,Gabriel is the principal recording angel, as shown inEzekiel 9:3-4, where he is "the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his side" who put the mark ofPassover on Jewish houses inEgypt.
In theSecrets of Enoch (also known as Second Enoch, or Slavonic Enoch) the recording angel is namedPravuil or Vretil: "And the Lord summoned one of his archangels by name Pravuil, whose knowledge was quicker in wisdom than the other archangels, who wrote all the deeds of the Lord..."[1]
