User blog comment:Guesswhatmeme/ArchAngel Hiarchy/@comment-3481504-20150518230040/@comment-3481504-20150519031402

Um, the answer to that is, Lucifer, an angel older than Raphael, taught Gabriel all of his "tricks" and probably raised him. So, understandably, Gabriel would be more clever than Raphael but Raphael is still more powerful.