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The Lord, the Son of God, whose presence and conduct the Israelites had in the wilderness, as appears from 1Co_10:4,9; compare Heb_11:26; who is sometimes called the Angel of the Lord, Exo_14:19, because he was and was to be his Father’s Angel or Messenger, sent by God unto men to ratify his covenant with them; whence he is called the Angel of the covenant, Mal_3:1, as he is upon another account called the Angel of his presence, Isa_63:9.
Went before them, not by local motion, but by his gracious and powerful operations for and about them. The pillar was but one, Num_9:15,16, having two different appearances and uses, of a cloud by day, to defend them from the heat, Psa_105:39, which in those parts was excessive; and of a fire by night, to illuminate them. It was a cloud erected towards heaven, like a pillar upwards; but downwards flat and broad, spread over the body of the people, and afterwards more eminently over the tabernacle.
To lead them the way, which was altogether necessary in those vast and pathless deserts, Num_10:33 Deu_1:33.