The Testament of Abraham is also relevant to the present survey of epiphanic or visionary language. In the long recension Abraham is brought on the cherubim chariot to heaven and sees there two gates leading to two ways, one narrow and the other wide. Outside the two gates he sees ‘a man sitting on a golden throne’, whose appearance ‘is fearsome, ομοια του δεσποτου’ (Rec.A. XI). Then he learns from Michael, his angelus interpres, that the glorious figure is Adam, ο προωτοπλαστος. Inside the gates, between the two Abraham sees ‘a fearsome throne which looks like fire’ and upon it ‘a wonderous man looking like the sun, like a son of God’ (ανηρ θαυματος ηλιορατος ομοιος υιω θεου), sitting (Rec.A. XII). The description of the fiery throne and of the figure sitting upon it are unmistakably reminiscent of those in Ezek 1; Dan 7; 1En 14. Strikingly, however, Michael tells Abraham that the fearsome man sitting upon the throne and exercising judgment upon souls is Abel, the son of Adam. The description of the enthroned figure in Rec.A. XII is the reverse of Ezek 1.26f: whereas in the latter God appears in the דמות כמראה אדם, in the former a man (ανηρ) appears ομοιος θιω θεου.