The priest Zacharias was alone at the altar when an angel told him a son would be born. “I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee.” The same angel appears earlier, in Daniel, when a voice calls, “Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.” And in Luke 1, six months later, he is sent to Nazareth and tells a startled Mary, “Fear not.” In each scene Gabriel explains and announces, and then steps back. Luke 1 holds both visits side by side.
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And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to Daniel (8:16) to explain the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and to communicate the prediction of the seventy weeks (Dan. 9:21-27).
He announced also the birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:11), and of the Messiah (26). He describes himself in the words, “I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God” (1:19).
William Smith, 1884
(man of God), an angel sent by God to announce to Zacharias the birth of John the Baptist, and to Mary the birth of Christ. He was also sent to Daniel to explain his visions. (Daniel 8:16; 9:21)