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Chapter 60: Jewish Views on the One Who Appeared in the Bush.
THEN TRYPHO SAID: "We don't get this from the passage you quoted, but only that it was an angel who appeared in the flame of fire, while God talked with Moses; so there were actually two beings together, an angel and God, who appeared in that vision."
I REPLIED AGAIN: "Even if this were true, my friends, that an angel and God appeared together in the vision seen by Moses, as has already been shown to you by the previously quoted passages, it will not be the Creator of all things who is the God that said to Moses that He was the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Instead, it will be He who has been shown to you to have appeared to Abraham, serving the will of the Maker of all things, and also executing His plan in the judgment of Sodom. So, even if it is as you say, that there were two—an angel and God—anyone with the slightest understanding will not claim that the Maker and Father of all things, having left all heavenly matters, was visible on a small part of the earth."
AND TRYPHO SAID: "Since it has already been proven that He who is called God and Lord, and appeared to Abraham, received from the Lord, who is in the heavens, what He inflicted on the land of Sodom, even though an angel had accompanied the God who appeared to Moses, we will understand that the God who spoke to Moses from the bush was not the Creator of all things, but He who has been shown to have revealed Himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who also is called and recognized as the Angel of God the Creator of all things, because He conveys to men the commands of the Father and Creator of all things."
AND I REPLIED: "Certainly, Trypho, I will demonstrate that, in the vision of Moses, the same One who is called an Angel, and who is God, appeared to and spoke with Moses. For the Scripture says this: 'The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the bush; and he saw that the bush was burning with fire, but it was not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight, for the bush is not burned. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, the Lord called to him out of the bush.' In the same way, the Scripture refers to Him who appeared to Jacob in the dream as an Angel, then states that the same Angel who appeared in the dream spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God who appeared to you when you fled from Esau your brother;' and again mentions that, in the judgment that befell Sodom in the days of Abraham, the Lord inflicted the punishment as the Lord who dwells in the heavens did;—in the same way here, the Scripture, in announcing that the Angel of the Lord appeared to Moses, and later declaring Him to be Lord and God, refers to the same One, whom it asserts by the many testimonies already quoted to be minister to God, who is above the world, above whom there is no other God."