User blog comment:ImperiexSeed/The oldest being, archangel or leviathan?/@comment-173.189.51.44-20120529021238/@comment-184.77.255.73-20120530194100

I highly doubt Metatron's a match for Gabriel; much less Lucifer, Death forbid Michael.

Dude's just a glorified scribe.

While he may be above Cupids, Angels, and maybe even Seraphs -- nothing suggests that he's on-par with the Archangels 4.