The Angel Who Bears the Name

Exodus 23:20–21: God sends an Angel before Israel who must be obeyed, who "will not pardon your transgressions," and in whom "my name is." Sent — yet carrying the Name and the divine prerogative of pardon: the double datum in a single pair of verses. Jacob's blessing binds the same figure to redemption — "the Angel which redeemed me from all evil" in poetic parallel with "the God before whom my fathers walked" (Gen 48:15–16) — and Isaiah 63:9 recalls "the angel of his presence" who saved them. The christophany tradition reads Jude 5 (NA28: "Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt") as the NT's own identification; the variant is itself contested, and the page says so. Sources: KJV text (PD); atlas lens 35 rows 5, 9, 10 and its contested points.