I gotta do it! I looked at several commentaries and I'm not out of line (as a Christian) in thinking that was probably Jesus. I don't think it's odd that they would call him an angel. When Jesus was first seen by some apostles they thought he was ghost so it wouldn't be such a stretch.
Let me ask you another thing while were on the subject...do you see any similarities at all between Abrahams sacrifice of Isaac and the sacrifice of Christ?
Umm, would these by any chance have been Christian commentaries? I thought so.
Let me ask you another thing while were on the subject...do you see any similarities at all between Abrahams sacrifice of Isaac and the sacrifice of Christ?
Superficially it would seem so, in that you have a father sacrificing a son. But Isaac was taken to the site of what became the Temple Mount; Jesus was executed on Golgotha. Isaac was to be a "burnt offering" (that's why he was carrying the wood); Jesus was crucified. Abraham was stopped by God's angel. The lesson was that God does not want human sacrifice. Whereas in Jesus's case God did not rescue him, and the lesson is supposed to be that only human sacrifice of the "God-man" Jesus could atone for our sins.