When the Angel of the Lord found Hagar in the wilderness, “she called the name of JEHOVAH that spake to her, Thou God seest me.”--JEHOVAH appeared unto Abraham in the plains of Mamre. Abraham lifted up his eyes, and three _men_, three persons in human form, “stood by him.” One of the three is called Jehovah. And JEHOVAH said, “Shall I hide from Abraham the thing that I do?” Appearances of the same personage occur to Isaac and to Jacob under the name of “the God of Abraham, and of Isaac.” After one of these manifestations, Jacob says, “I have seen God face to face;” and at another, “Surely the Lord (JEHOVAH) is in this place.” The same Jehovah was made visible to Moses, and gave him his commission; and God said, “I AM THAT I AM; thou shalt say to the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” The same JEHOVAH went before the Israelites by day in a pillar of cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; and by Him the law was given amidst terrible displays of power and majesty from Mount Sinai. “I am the Lord (JEHOVAH) thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” &c. The collation of a few passages, or of the different parts of the same passages, of Scripture, will show that Jehovah, and “the Angel of the Lord,” when used in this eminent sense, are the same person. Jacob says of Bethel, where he had exclaimed, “Surely _Jehovah_ is in this place;” “The _Angel_ of God appeared to me in a dream, saying, I am the God of Bethel.” Upon his death bed he gives the names of _God_ and _Angel_ to this same person: “The _God_ which fed me all my life long unto this day, the _Angel_ which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.” So in Hosea xii, 2, 5, it is said, “By his strength he had power with _God_; yea, he had power over the _Angel_, and prevailed.” “We found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us, even the _Lord God of Hosts_; the Lord is his memorial.” Here the same person has the names, _God_, _Angel_, and _Lord God of Hosts_. “The _Angel of the Lord_ called to Abraham a second time from heaven, and said, By _myself_ have I sworn, saith the Lord, (JEHOVAH,) that, since thou hast done this thing, in blessing will I bless thee.” The _Angel of the Lord_ appeared to Moses in a flame of fire; but this same Angel “called to him out of the bush, and said, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.” To omit many other passages, St. Stephen, in alluding to this part of the history of Moses, in his speech before the council, says, “There appeared to Moses in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, _an Angel of the Lord_ in a flame of fire,” showing that that phraseology was in use among the Jews in his day, and that this Angel and Jehovah were regarded as the same being; for he adds, “Moses was in the church in the wilderness with the _Angel_ which