Genesis 22:11

III. JEHOVAH JIREH.

11. The angel of the Lord called unto him.

There is. significance in the change of terms to represent the Deity. Thus far in the account of the trial of Abraham the word is God (Elohim), but now it is Lord (Jehovah), the covenant name of the God of Israel. The Angel of the Lord is the "Angel of the Covenant," so often named, by many supposed to be the Son of God. It is the Covenant Angel who stays the hand. The words, "Abraham! Abraham!" repeated, imply rapid, imperious utterance, to stay in an instant the hand that was about to descend. "God, as the true God, had. sovereign right to demand all that Abraham had, yet Jehovah, as the Covenant God, would not suffer his covenant to fail. These are the different aspects in which God revealed himself to the patriarch in the history of redemption. God does not contradict himself, but exhibits different aspects of the divine plan.