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Can any one please explain the history of the name? I have always been curious because I would have assumed that a name borne by an Archangel belongs to an early part of the history of the people. Were idiomatic expressions used as names of humans in that phase of history, or only of divine beings, i.e., is Michael original a human name that became an angel's name or vice-versa? If it was primarily an angel's name, what was the connotation: since angel's are not named by any one human, I would have expected their names to be more formulaic (e.g., in Gabriel).

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