would have exprefed it, ὁ ὁρῶν Ἰσραήλ: He that regardeth, or is the Guardian Angel of, Ifrael.

XLVI. And correfpondent hereto the Septuagint Tranflation of the Bible, as before quoted, renders that Paffage in the Song of Mofes, which is mentioned, Deut. xxxii. 8, 9. Afk thy Father, and he will fhew thee; thy Elders, and they will tell thee: When the Moft High divided to the Nations their Inheritance; when he separated the Sons of Adam, he fet the Bounds of the Nations according to the Number of the Angels of God, and the LORD's Portion is his People Jacob, the Line of his Inheritance Ifrael. Upon which Words Eufebius has this Remark. [7] "By the Words the Moft "High, Mofes denotes the Father, who is "God over all; and by the Lord, he means

the Logos, who is called Lord, as being, "with regard to us, next to that God who " is over all. But, fays he, all Nations "whom he calls the Sons of Adam, were,

for Reasons to us unfearchable, distribu"ted according to the Will of the Moft High, to Governing and Guardian An[7] Eufeb. Dem. Evang. lib. iv. cap. 7.

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gels, who elude our Sight. But to the "most eminent Governor, Ruler, and King "of all, as to his only Son, he allots the "Government of Jacob, or Ifrael." And in this Interpretation he is fupported by Clemens Alexandrinus, who fays pofitively, that [8] Angels were appointed by God to prefide over Nations and Cities: That [9] they are his Minifters in the Government of terreftrial Affairs; and, [1] in particular, that they were by his Command distributed among the Nations, &c.

XLVII. Whence it is manifeft, that, according to the Scriptures of the Old Teftament, Angels were appointed to preside over People and Nations upon Earth, and that one Angel, in particular, who is called, by Mofes [2], Jehovah, and by the Septuagint is tranflated the Lord, had Ifrael affigned to him by the Moft High, as the Portion of his Inheritance; and therefore may very reasonably be fuppofed to be the fame Perfon with that First Prince, mentioned by Daniel,

[8] Clem. Alex. Strom. lib. vi. p. 822. Edi. Pot. [9] Id. ibid. lib. vii. p. 839. [1] Id. ibid. p. 832. [2] See Sect. xxxvii,

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whom he alfo calleth MICHAEL, the great Prince which standeth for the Children of Israel; and with that Archangel with many Names, whom Philo calls the Regarder of Ifrael.

XLVIII. And what is remarkable, is this, that this Name of Michael, which is given by Daniel to this Archangel, literally fignifies [3] who is like God; and accordingly Philo obferves, that one of the Names belonging to this Archangel was the Image of God. Which Image [4] he calleth the Logos and the fecond God, and fuppofed Man to have been made in the Image of this Image; Because, fays he, "nothing "mortal can be formed in the Image of "the Supreme God, the Father of all Things."

XLIX. Which Logos, or Word of God, is, in the Book of Wisdom, manifeftly spoken of, as the Guardian Angel of Ifrael; where the Author of that elegant Work, in

[3] The Vord Michael, being derived from the three Hebrew Words, Mi, which fignifies who ; Cha, which fignifies fo, or like, or the fame ; and El, which fignifies God.

[4] Eufeb. Præp. Evang. lib. vii. cap. 13.

defcribing

defcribing the [5] Angel, who was sent to rescue them from their Egyptian Bondage, by deftroying the Firft-born of the Egypttians, fays: For [6] while all Things were in quiet Silence, and that Night was in the Midft of her fwift Course, thine Almighty WORD leapt down from Heaven, out of thy royal Throne, as a fierce Man of War into the Midst of a Land of Destruction, and brought thy unfeigned Commandment, as a Sharp Sword, and standing up, filled all Things with Death, and it touched the Heaven, but it stood upon the Earth. And therefore also the Jerufalem Targum on Exod. xii. 23. where it is faid in the Hebrew, And JEHOVAH will pass through to fmite the Egyptians, paraphrafes it by faying, And the WORD OF JEHOVAH shall pass through to Smite the Egyptians. Which Expreffion of Memra Jehova, or Word of Jehovah, is fo favourite an Expreffion, among all the Chaldee Paraphrafts on the Old Testament, that, where the original Expreffion in the Hebrew fays, Jehovah did fuch or fuch a Thing, they commonly paraphrase it, by attributing thofe Operations to

[5] Exod. xxiii. 21.

[6] Wifd. xviii. 13-16.

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the Memra, that is, the Logos, or Word of Jehovah. Inftances of which it would be endless to produce.

L. And as this Angel, whofe Portion is Ifrael, is called the Word of God, because God employeth him to carry his Word; so is he also, by the fame Figure of Rhetoric, called the Wisdom of God, because he is employed by God to execute the Purposes of his Wisdom. For thus the wife Son of Sirach, when speaking of this Guardian Angel of Ifrael, by the Name of Wisdom, fays [7], I came out of the Mouth of the High, and covered the Earth as a Cloud. I dwelt in high Places, and my Throne is in a cloudy Pillar. So the Creator of all Things gave me a Commandment; and be that MADE me caused me to reft, and faid, Let thy Dwelling be in Jacob, and thine Inheritance in Ifrael. He CREATED me from the Beginning, before the World, and I shall never fail. In the holy Tabernacle I ferved him; and fo was I established in Sion. Likewife in the beloved City be gave me Reft, and in Jerufalem was my Power.

And I took Root in an honou

[7] Ecclus. xxiv, 1— 12.

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