breaking of the dawn in the history of our dogma. The God who is sent is called מַלְאַךְ יְחוָה, i. e., messenger, Angelus Domini, the word angelus being here employed in its literal sense of ἄγγελος, from ἀγγέλλειν, to send. Since the “Angel of Jehovah” is described as יַהְוֶה, i. e., true God, we have in these theophanies two distinct persons, both of them Yahweh, the one “sending” and the other “sent.” An apparition of this character was the angel who spoke words of comfort to Hagar shortly