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TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC. 73
do without total disregard to the idiom and use of the
Hebrew language,) and thereby might attempt to sub-
stantiate the identity of one angle with the other. He
would however, in this case, soon perceive his own errorv
If he should refer to Judges xiii 16, where thz angel
*(with the definite article in the common version) says to
Manoah. " Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy
bread ; and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must
offer it unto the Lord," declaring himself unworthy of
the worship due to God alone ; or if he should turn to
2 Samuel xxiv. 16, where the angel is represented as an
obedient messenger of God, a destroying instrument in
the hands of Jehovah. Many other instances might be
cited of a similar nature. How, then, can Jesus, if he be
the being termed the angel, speak of himself, (as the
Editor supposes,) as God in one instance, while in others
he renounces his own deity, and even declares, that he,
destroys the lives of thousands by the command of a
superior being ?
Let us now examine whether or not the prophets,,
as well as the angels of God, in the delivery of his mes-
sage and his will, did not often speak in behalf of God,
as if God himself had spoken. I confine my notice to
the prophets ; for were I to point out any angel speaking
in behalf of Jehovah, without distinction of persons, the
Editor, might attempt to deduce from this ver_y circum-
stance, that that angel was God the Son.
Instances similar to the following abound in the
Old Testament. Isaiah x. 4—7 : " Without mc they
shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. O Assyrian,
do without total disregard to the idiom and use of the
Hebrew language,) and thereby might attempt to sub-
stantiate the identity of one angle with the other. He
would however, in this case, soon perceive his own errorv
If he should refer to Judges xiii 16, where thz angel
*(with the definite article in the common version) says to
Manoah. " Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy
bread ; and if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering, thou must
offer it unto the Lord," declaring himself unworthy of
the worship due to God alone ; or if he should turn to
2 Samuel xxiv. 16, where the angel is represented as an
obedient messenger of God, a destroying instrument in
the hands of Jehovah. Many other instances might be
cited of a similar nature. How, then, can Jesus, if he be
the being termed the angel, speak of himself, (as the
Editor supposes,) as God in one instance, while in others
he renounces his own deity, and even declares, that he,
destroys the lives of thousands by the command of a
superior being ?
Let us now examine whether or not the prophets,,
as well as the angels of God, in the delivery of his mes-
sage and his will, did not often speak in behalf of God,
as if God himself had spoken. I confine my notice to
the prophets ; for were I to point out any angel speaking
in behalf of Jehovah, without distinction of persons, the
Editor, might attempt to deduce from this ver_y circum-
stance, that that angel was God the Son.
Instances similar to the following abound in the
Old Testament. Isaiah x. 4—7 : " Without mc they
shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still. O Assyrian,