st with us? And the Lord said, I will do this
thing also that thou hast spoken" (14-17).

Moreover, Isaiah, speaking of this time, says that "In all their
affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence (His Face)
saved them" (Isa. lxiii. 9).

Thus we find that some angel is to be sent because God will not go up:
that thereupon the nation mourns, although in this twenty-third chapter
they had received as a gladdening promise, the assurance of an Angel
escort in Whom is the name of God; that in response to prayer God
promises that His Face shall accompany them, so that it may be known
that He Himself goes with them; and finally that His Face in Exodus is
the Angel of His Face in Isaiah. The prophet at least had no doubt
whether the gracious promise in the twenty-third chapter answered, in
the thirty-third chapter, to the third verse or the fourteenth--to the
menace, or to the restored favour.

This difficulty being now converted into an evidence, we turn back to
examine other passages.

When the Angel of the Lord spoke to Hagar, "she called the name of
Jehovah that spake unto her El Roi" (Gen. xvi. 11, 13). When God tempted
Abraham, "the Angel of Jehovah called unto him out of heaven, and said,
... I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son
... from Me" (Gen. xxii. 11, 12). When a man wrestled with Jacob, he
thereupon claimed to have seen God face to face, and called the place
Peniel, the Face (Presence) of God (Gen. xxxii. 4, 30). But Hosea tells
us that "He had power with God: yea, he had power over the Angel, ...
and there He spake with us, even Jehovah, the God of hosts" (Hos. xii.
3, 5). Even earlier, in his exile, the Angel of the Lord had appeared
unto him and said, "I am the God of Bethel ... where thou vowedst a vow
unto Me." But the vow was distinctly made to God Himself: "I will surely
give the tenth to Thee" (xxxi. 11, 13; xxviii. 20, 22). Is it any wonder
that when this patriarch blessed Joseph, he said, "The God before whom
my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my
life long unto this day, the Angel which hath redeemed me from all
evil, (may He) bless the lads" (xlviii. 15, 16)?

In Exodus iii. 2 the Angel of the Lord appeared out of the bush. But
presently He changes into Jehovah Himself, and announces Himself to be
Jehovah the God of their fathers (iii. 2, 4, 15). In Exodus xiii. 21
Jehovah went before Israel, but the next chapter tell