Gabriel's Banked Coals and the Doubled Vayomer in Midrash Shmuel

Rabbi Yochanan in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai: Wherever it says "And he said [and he said]," it is given only to be expounded. "And he spoke unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in" etc. (Ezekiel 10:2). What is "And he said [and he said]"? The Holy One, blessed be He, said to the angel, and the angel said to the cherub: "Even though the Holy One, blessed be He, has decreed concerning me, and I cannot enter within your partition, still, do an act of charity with me and give me coals of your own, so that I not be burned." This is what is written, "And he lifted and gave" (ibid. 10:7). What is "And he lifted and gave"? Rabbi Pinchas said: He cooled them and placed them in his bosom. Rabbi Yehoshua de-Sikhnin said in the name of Rabbi Levi: For six years the coals lay banked in Gabriel's hand, for he thought that Israel would repent, but they did not. And since they did not, he sought to hurl them upon them in fury. The Holy One, blessed be He, called to him, "Gabriel, Gabriel, slow down! There are among them those who do charity with one another." This is what is written, "And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand" (ibid. 10:8). Rabbi Abba said in the name of Rabbi Berekhiah: Who sustains the upper beings and the lower beings? The charity that Israel does by hand. This is what is written, "Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high" etc. (Psalms 71:19). And likewise, "And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD" etc. (1 Kings 20:28). What is "And he said, and he said"? In the first saying he said to him: If Ben-Hadad comes under your hand, do not spare him. In the second saying he said to him: See how many mires you have made, and how many bans you have proclaimed; before he was mired by your hand, you have let him go out in peace; therefore "thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people" (ibid. 20:42). And likewise, "Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said" etc. (Esther 7:5). What is "And he said, and he said"? Rav said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer: Before he sensed that she was a Jewess, he was speaking with her in public; but once he sensed that she was a Jewess, "the king Ahasuerus said" to the interpreter, "and the interpreter said" to Esther the queen. And likewise, "Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say" etc. (Leviticus 21:1). In the first saying: "There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people." And in the second saying He said to him: If a corpse with none to bury it comes to your hand, defile yourself for it. For in this world you defile yourselves for a corpse with none to bury it, but in the time to come you will not defile yourselves at all. Why? Because there is no death in the time to come. This is what is written, "He will swallow up death for ever" etc. (Isaiah 25:8).