Messengers were regarded as the source of executive activity. Culturally, Hebrews understood how one could be presented as the source of an action by having a role in the process without actually being the source of the action. As told in the Passover Haggadah in commenting on Deut 26:8, “And the Lord brought us from Egypt, not by means of an angel, nor by means of a seraph, nor by means of a messenger.”67 Thus, Israelite tradition understood that even the angel who led Israel out of Egypt was not