CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA SAYS IT WAS THE ANGEL JESUS WHO LEAD THE ISRAELITES IN THE WILDERNESS!

GREEK TEXT: "...Ἐνταῦθα [1.] διδάσκαλός ἐστι παιδαγωγίας· καὶ γὰρ ἦν ὡς ἀληθῶς διὰ μὲν Μωσέως παιδαγωγὸς ὁ κύριος τοῦ λαοῦ τοῦ παλαιοῦ, δι' αὑτοῦ δὲ τοῦ νέου καθηγεμὼν λαοῦ, πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον. Ἰδού, γάρ φησι τῷ Μωσεῖ, ὁ ἄγγελός μου προπορεύεταί σου, τὴν εὐαγγέλιον καὶ ἡγεμόνιον ἐπιστήσας τοῦ λόγου [2.] δύναμιν...” - (The Instructor, Book I, chapter VII, MPG [1.7.58.1,2])

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (circa. 153-217 C.E.): “...HERE HE IS THE TEACHER OF THE ART OF INSTRUCTION. FOR IT WAS REALLY THE LORD THAT WAS THE INSTRUCTOR OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE BY MOSES; but He is the instructor of the new people by Himself, face to face. “For behold,” He says to Moses, “MY ANGEL SHALL GO BEFORE THEE,” representing the evangelical and commanding power of the Word, but guarding the Lord’s prerogative. “In the day on which I will visit them,[1155]...” — (Book 1, Chapter 7, “THE INSTRUCTOR,” Or “THE PAEDAGOGUS,” Translated by William Wilson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)

[FOOTNOTE 1155]: Ex. xxxii. 33, 34.

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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (circa. 153-217 C.E.): "...In this place HERE HE IS [THE] TEACHER OF THE INSTRUCTION. For it was in truth, even the Lord, through Moses, the Instructor, even a new leader, but through his intermediate agency, face to face. For "Behold!" as it says to Moses: "MY PERSONAL ANGEL[*] WILL JOURNEY BEFORE YOU," meaning the good news AND LEADERSHIP OF THE POWERFUL LOGOS..." - (Book 1, Chapter 7, “THE INSTRUCTOR,” Or “THE PAEDAGOGUS,” Translated by Matt13weedhacker 29/08/2011)

[FOOTNOTE *]: Gk., ( ὁ ἄγγελος μου ) Literally: "...the Angel of me..."

[FOOTNOTE *]: Gk., ( τὴν εὐαγγέλιον καὶ ἡγεμόνιον ἐπιστήσας τοῦ λόγου δύναμιν )

GREEK TEXT: “...Τὸ μὲν οὖν πρότερον τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ λαῷ πρεσβυτέρα διαθήκη ἦν καὶ νόμος ἐπαιδαγώγει τὸν λαὸν μετὰ φόβου καὶ λόγος ἄγγελος ἦν, καινῷ δὲ καὶ νέῳ λαῷ καινὴ καὶ νέα διαθήκη δεδώρηται καὶ ὁ λόγος γεγέννηται καὶ ὁ φόβος εἰς ἀγάπην μετατέτραπται καὶ ὁ μυστικὸς ἐκεῖνος ἄγγελος Ἰησοῦς τίκτεται...” - (Book I, Chapter 7, Section 59, Verses 1-2, [1.7.59.1-2] “THE INSTRUCTOR,” Or “THE PAEDAGOGUS,” M.P.G.)

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (circa. 153-217 C.E.): "...Formerly the older people [the Israelites] had an old covenant, and the law disciplined the people with fear, and THE WORD WAS AN ANGEL; but the fresh and new people [the Christians] has also been given a new covenant, and the Word has appeared, and fear turned into love, and THAT MYSTIC ANGEL IS BORN—JESUS..." — (Book I, Chapter 7, Section 59, Verses 1-2, [MPG 1.7.59.1-2] “THE INSTRUCTOR,” Or “THE PAEDAGOGUS,” Translated by William Wilson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)

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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (circa. 153-217 C.E.): “...Certainly in former times there was existing for the older people an older covenant and law to educate the people along with fear, AND [THE] LOGOS WAS AN ANGEL,[#] but to a new people of a new kind, a [correspondingly] new covenant of a new kind was given, and the Logos came to be born, and the fear was turned into love, AND THIS MYSTICAL PERSON, AN ANGEL, JESUS, IS BORN[*]...” - (Book I, Chapter 7, Section 59, Verses 1-2, [MPG 1.7.59.1-2] “THE INSTRUCTOR,” Or “THE PAEDAGOGUS,” Translated by Matt13weedhacker 13/2/2011)

[FOOTNOTE #]: Gk., ( καὶ λόγος ἄγγελος ἦν ) Lit., “...and [the] Logos an Angel was...”

[FOOTNOTE *]: Gk., ( καὶ ὁ μυστικὸς ἐκεῖνος ἄγγελος Ἰησοῦς τίκτεται )