by an angel who is accompanying him (40:2, 8; 43:3; 46:2; 52:3; 53:4; 54:4; 56:2; 60:11, 24 [an interpolation]; 61:2, 3; and presumably 64:2). This revelatory device, which is embedded in a common form (vision—seer’s question—angelic interpretation), is one of the Parables’ borrowings from the Book of the Watchers (see §3.2.3.1 above, pp. 22–23) and is one of the means by which the author emphasizes the apocalyptic (revelatory) character of his composition. Thus, in a phenomenal world of evil and
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