AN ANCIENT ARAMAIC PARAPHRASE BIBLE – SAYS IT WAS MICHAEL THE ARCH-ANGEL WHO SPOKE TO MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN!
ARAMAIC
TARGUM (circa.
100 B.C.-1000 C.E.): “...BEHOLD,
[23(C).]
I
WILL SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE,
TO KEEP THEE IN THE WAY, and to bring thee in to the place of My
habitation which I have prepared. Be circumspect before Him, and obey
His word, and BE NOT REBELLIOUS AGAINST HIS WORDS;
FOR HE WILL NOT FORGIVE YOUR SINS, BECAUSE HIS WORD IS IN MY NAME.
For if thou wilt indeed hearken to His word, and do all that I speak
by Him, I will be the enemy of thy enemy, and will trouble them who
trouble thee. FOR MY
ANGEL
SHALL GO BEFORE THEE, and bring thee to the Amoraee, and Pherizaee,
and Kenaanaee, Hivaee, and Jebusaee; and I will destroy them. […]
[24(A).]
AND
- ( MICHAEL
), - ( THE
PRINCE OF WISDOM
), - SAID TO MOSHEH
ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, Come up before the Lord, thou and
Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and
worship at a distance. And Mosheh alone shall approach before the
Lord; but they shall not draw nigh, nor may the people come up with
him...”
- (Pgs. 515-527,
Exodus Chapter 23(C)-24(A), Section XVIII, Mishpatim, TARGUM
PSEUDO-JONATHAN, PENTATEUCHAL
TARGUMIM “The
Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel On the Pentateuch With The
Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum From the Chaldee,” by
J. W. Etheridge, M.A. First Published 1862.)
ARAMAIC
TARGUM
(circa.
100 B.C.-1000 C.E.): “...MICHAEL,
THE PRINCE OF WISDOM, SAID TO MOSES ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE
MONTH...” - (Page
231, Chapter 24, “Targum Neofiti 1, Exodus” Translated by Martin
McNamara, Michael Maher, Liturgical Press, from the University of
Michigan 1994.)
GILL'S
EXPOSITION OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE: “...And he said unto Moses,”
Who said? No doubt a divine Person, and yet what this Person said is:
“come up unto the Lord,” meaning either to himself, or one divine
Person called to Moses to come up to another: according to the Targum
of Jonathan, it was Michael, the prince of wisdom; not a created
angel, but the eternal Word, Wisdom, and Son of God; who said this on
the seventh day of the month, which was the day after the giving of
the law, or ten commands; though Jarchi says this paragraph was
before the ten commands, and was said on the fourth of Sivan; but the
Targumist seems most correct...” -
(Gill, John. "Commentary on Exodus 24:1". "The New
John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible".)
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