This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:
Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
For when by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again what are the first principles of the things spoken by God; and have become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.
If anyone speaks, let him speak like a messenger of God; if anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See that you do not do it: I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show his servants the things which must shortly be done.