[Teófilo]

and they appear in the flames of the thornbush

I believe that was God in the bush not an angel.

Having watch The Ten Commandments repeatedly I would also prefer to believe that it was God in the bush.

However, the traditions entwined in the narrative differ: the J Tradition has God manifesting himself to Moses; the P Tradition has an Angel, God's surrogate, appeared to Moses to save God's transcendence.

The early Fathers explain that it was indeed God, the Word pre-Incarnate, who appeared to Moses, which "jives" because the Son proceeds from the Father from all eternity and therefore is relatively "subordinate" to the Father; He is the Son from all eternity who speaks for the Father as his "messenger" (which is what "angel" means) being in fact, God's own pre-existent, eternal Word.

I find the Patristic view the best Christian interpretation of the text.

-Theo

[guitarplayer1953]

Exodus 00051 3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here [am] I.

It says that God spoke out of the burning bush.