Thus Daniel, chap. x. 16, 17: "One like the similitude of the sons of men _touched my lips_; then I opened my mouth and spake, and said unto him that _stood before me_, O Adonai!... how can the servant of this Adonai talk with this Adonai?" And Amos, chap. vii., relates that he _saw the Adonai_ standing on a wall, with a plumb-line in his hand, and that the Adonai spoke to and was answered by him. The context shows that, though appearing visibly as a man, he exercised Divine prerogatives. Again, chap. ix. 1: "I saw the Adonai _standing_ upon the altar." Afterwards he speaks as Jehovah, and, verse 16, utters the prediction, quoted Acts xv. 16, that, after the Gentile dispensation, "I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down, ... and I will set it up." In the first chapter of Zechariah the following Divine designations occur: Jehovah, Jehovah Zebaoth, Adonai, _the_ Melach, and Melach Jehovah. The Person locally present and visible, who in the 9th verse is called Adonai and _the_ Melach, in the 11th and 12th verses Melach Jehovah, and in the 13th, 14th, and 19th verses _the_ Melach, is in the 8th and 10th verses called a _man_. I saw by night and behold, a man ... among the myrtle trees, v. 8. And the _man_ that stood among the myrtle trees answered, v. 9. And they answered the Melach Jehovah that stood among the myrtle trees, v. 11. But the prophet on seeing the man, v. 8, addresses him as Adonai. "Then said I, O Adonai! what are these?" And _the_ Melach answered, &c. v. 9. In the progress of the ensuing colloquy, the visible Person, in the form of man, _the_ Melach, the Melach who is Jehovah, speaks to and of Jehovah and Jehovah Zebaoth, as the Messiah did when visibly present incarnate in man's nature on earth; and an audible response was in like manner given. See v. 10, 12, 13. Illustrations of the same usage might be adduced from almost every part of the Old Testament, where the Messiah, as announced by designations peculiar to his complex official Person and character, and as visibly present, speaks to and of himself and also to and of the Father, under designations which refer only to the Divine Nature. The same is customary likewise with the prophets. Thus David, Ps. cx.: "Jehovah (the Father) saith to _Adonai_, (the Messiah, as is declared in the New Testament,) Sit thou at my right hand," &c. And Ps. ii.: Why do the heathen rage?... and the rulers take counsel against Jehovah and against the Anointed, or Messiah, v. 1, 2. The Adonai shall have them in derision, v. 4. I (the Messiah) will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said onto me, Thou art my Son, &c., v. 7.