Himself, whom the people professed to be seeking after; in the second he is described as the Saviour of the covenant-people; and, in the third—the earliest of the three, and the foundation of the others—He is in a pointed manner distinguished from an angel in the ordinary sense (comp. the passage with ch. 33:2, 12, 14,) and is characterized as the same that afterwards appeared to Joshua, at once as the Lord and as the Captain of the Lord’s host (Josh. 5:14, 15; 6:2.) Still further, we find this highest