User blog comment:Calvincambridge30/Versus/@comment-79.115.71.25-20151223113147/@comment-3481504-20151227033809

And what makes you think Raphael couldn't also do those things? Now it may be the case that Gabriel was more adept at warping reality as he was personally tutored by Lucifer himself. Raphael even said that his torture was so horrible that it exceeded even Zachariah's imagination, who was an extremely powerful seraph in his right. I would say, end of the day, Raphael's stronger than Gabriel.