messenger of the lord

Continued from Chapter 9 (Exodus 3:2-8, 10-16, 18) The Angel of the Lord Some trinitarians claim that whenever the Scriptures mention malach ’Adon-ai (Y-H-V-H), “an angel of the Lord,” the angel is Jesus. They translate all passages mentioning such an angel as “the Angel of the Lord,” although the Hebrew may just as well mean “an angel of the Lord” (literally “a messenger of the Lord”; cf. Judges 2:1, 6:11-22). True, in the construct state, when the second noun has the definite article, the f