ACC ~ Galatians 3 v19c
WHETHER GOD GAVE THE LAW BY MEANS OF THE ANGELS. Nestorius: [It is said that] “God gave the law” and “by means of angels the Law was given.” They are not lies, nor are they contradictory one to another. It is not that he calls the angels God or that an angel calls himself God. But because he appeared by means of the angels, both are truly said. THE BAZAAR OF HERACLEIDES 56.
ORDAINED BY ANGELS. AMBROSIASTER: By “angels” he means God’s messengers—that is, Moses, [Joshua] son of Nun and the other prophets up to John the Baptist…. Through these, therefore, the Law and Prophets are ordained and disposed by God in the hand, that is, the power, of the Savior. For he is the Mediator, the reconciler of God and humanity, so that he may save whom he will out of those who have received the law from the angels. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.19.1-2.
AN ANGEL SENT TO MOSES. THEODORET: It was imposed through the ministry of angels, and Moses assisted in this imposition. For Moses is the one that is called an intermediary. … For the God of all set Michael over them, as taught by the blessed Daniel. And to the great Moses he promised to send with him an angel to the people.EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3.19.
GOD THE SPIRIT WORKED THROUGH ANGELS PRIOR TO THE INCARNATION. AUGUSTINE: Now every dispensation of the Old Testament was given through angels, the Holy Spirit working in them and in the very Word of truth, though not yet incarnate, yet never departing from some true ordering of providence. This law was given through angels, sometimes acting in their own person, sometimes in that of God, as was also the way of the prophets. … The children [of Abraham] were put in the hand of [Christ] the Mediator so that he himself might liberate them from sin when they were forced by their transgression of the law to admit that they needed grace and mercy from the Lord. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 24 [1B.3.19-20].
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