Judges 6:14

the Lord turned towards him The narrator lets us into the secret, though Gideon has not yet recognized who the Traveller is; LXX here and in Judges 6:16 (cf. LXX Exodus 4:24) reads -the angel of the Lord," an obvious way of introducing consistency.

Go in this thy might See on Judges 6:12. Gideon's natural qualities were capable of being set to higher tasks. -God takes men as they are and makes them what they are not."

have not I sent thee? do not I send thee? The language of the speaker both here and in Judges 6:16 seems to us to betray his real character; but Gideon does not see through the disguise till Judges 6:22.