Judges 6:12,13

There is somewhat very striking in this short conversation; short as it is, it conveys much more than the mere words express. If this angel was, as the whole sense of the passage seems to intimate, the Lord Jesus, it is very true indeed, that the Lord was with him. The answer is also as striking: for according to the Chaldee reading of it, the words are, If the Shechinah, (the well known character of the promised seed of the Lord) be our help, why then is all this befallen us? Reader! remark how common it is in all ages for the Lord's people to be a tried people. And Reader! add this other remark to the observation; if the Lord's people be a sinning people, their offences shall be visited with rods. Psalms 89:30.