506 THE GLORY OF CHRIST AS GOD-MAN. people ; and Balsam said to the princes of Balak, The Lord or Jehovah refuseth -to give me leave togo with you." And verse 22, &c. there is the angel of the Lord meeting Salaam on the road toMoab, and conversing with him ; but I do not find that this angel eitherassumes the name of the Lord, or is so called by the sacred writer : ,unless we may infer thus much by compa- ring what the angel said unto Balaam verse 25. The word that I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou speak, with chapter xxiii. 3, 4. " Balsam said to Balak, peradventure the Lord will come to me : and God met Balaam. Verse 5. And the Lord or Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Re- turn unto Balak, andthus shalt thou speak, &c. Again, verse N. And the Lord or Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, &c." Chap. xxiv. 2. f6 Balaam lift up his eyes, and the Spirit of God came upon Mtn, andhe took'up his parable, and said, The man who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the Almighty, having his eyes opened, bath said, How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! &c." Whether this be sufficient to determine this angel to be Jehovah, I leave to the reader. Deut. xxxii. 33. " The Lord your God went in the way before you in fire by night, to chew yod by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day." Dent. iv. 12. " The Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire ; ye heard the voice of words, but saw no similitude, onlya voice. Ver. 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female." Dent. xxiii. 13. " Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon, and thou shalt dig therewith, and cover that which cometh from thee : for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee; therefore shall thy campbe holy, that he see no unclean thing in thee." This text does not indeed prove any appearance of God, but may be only a representation of God walking through theircamp after the manner of mete, to impress a more awful idea of the presence of God upon the peo- ple of Israel, that they might abstain from all legal impurities of every kind. Joshua v. 13. « When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand : and Joshua went untohim, and-saidunto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? Ver. 14. And he said, Nay, but as the captain of the host of the Lord am I now come; and Joshua fell On his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? Ver. 15. And the captain of the Lord's host said onto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from oft thy foot, for the place whereon-thou standest is holy; and Joshua: -did so." Chap. vi.
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