esse ex numero creatorum existentium extra Dei essentiam, sed ex emanationibus, quss intra Dei essentiam subsistunt, sic in Tan- chiima explicari, quod sit Metatro7i, Prineeps faciei, John vi. 46." That the angel of Jehovah is a divine person, is further manifest from the account given in Exodus xxxii. and xxxiii. of what God said to Moses after the people had sinned in worshipping the golden calf. In punishment of that offence God threatened no longer per- sonally to attend the people. In consequence of this manifestation of the divine displeasure the whole congregation were assembled before the door of the Tabernacle, and humbled themselves be- fore God. And Jehovah descended and spake unto Moses face to face .as a man speaketh unto his friend. And Moses inter- ceded for the people and said. If thy presence go not with us carry us not up hence. And Jehovah said, My presence (z. e., I myself) shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. This shows that a divine person, Jehovah, had previously guided the people, and that on their repentance. He promised to continue with them. This person, called the angel of Jehovah, Jehovah himself, is in Is. Ixiii. 9, called " the angel of the face of Jehovah," i. g., the angel or the messenger, who is the image of God. It can hardly be doubted, therefore, that this angel was the Son of God, sent by Him and therefore called his angel ; who in Is. Ixiii. is designated as the Saviour of Israel and the Redeemer of Jacob ; who came to reveal God, as He was the brightness of his glory and the ex- press image of his person, in whom was his name, or, as it is expressed in the New Testament, the fulness of the Godhead; who in the fulness of time, for us men and for our salvation, became flesh, and revealed his glory as the only begotten Son full of grace and truth.
In subsequent periods of the history of God's people this same divine person appears as the leader and God of Israel. He mani- fested himself to Joshua (v. 14) as " Prince of the host of the Lord " ; to Gideon (Judges vi. 11), as the angel of Jehovah, and spake to him, saying, i. e., Jehovah sajd to him, Go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. In verse 16 it is again said, " Jehovah said unto him surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man." When Gideon became aware who it was that spoke to him he ex- claimed, " Alas, O Lord God, for because I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said unto him. Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die." The same angel ap- peared to Manoah and promised him a son, and revealed himself