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 when the angel of the Lord appeared to the wife of Manoah, it is said: "The woman came and told her husband, saying: A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God" (Judges xiii. 6. Also vs. 9, 10). So, too, the angel Gabriel whom the prophet Daniel saw in vision, is called "the man Gabriel" (Dan. ix. 21). And the man whom the prophet Zechariah beheld in vision "among the myrtle trees," is immediately after called "the angel of the Lord" (Zech. i. 8, 11). Again, when the women came early in the morning to the Lord's sepulchre, and had entered into it. Luke says: Behold two men stood by them in shining garments" (xxiv. 4). And John says that they saw "two angels in white, sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain" (xx. 12)—proving conclusively the human form of angels and their generic identity with the human race. Again, when the seer of Patmos fell down to worship before the feet of an angel, the angel said: "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book"—thus plainly affirming his human nature, and his consequent kinship to our race. And that an angel is none other than a thoroughly regenerate man—one who has attained to the full stature of spiritual manhood and laid aside his material body, is evident from his measure as given in the Apocalypse. For the inspired apostle tells us, that, having measured the wall of the Holy City when he was in the spirit, he found it to be "the measure of a man [meaning a true or regenerate man], that is, of the