Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—Z

Zophiel

An angelic scout of “swiftest wing.” The word means “God's spy.” (Milton: Paradise Lost, yi. 355.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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