Holy Scripture
Judges 13:20
A church father on this verse
“For if an angel is able to use air, mist, cloud, fire, and any other natural substance or physical species; and a person [is able] to use, face, tongue, hand, pen, letters, or any other means for the purpose of communicating the secret things of his own mind: in a word, if, though he is human, he sends human messenger…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20And it came to pass when the flame went up above the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord went up in the flame; and Manoah and his wife were looking, and they fell upon their face to the earth.
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18And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why dost thou thus ask after my name; whereas it is wonderful?
19And Manoah took a kid of the goats and its meat offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and the angel wrought a distinct work, and Manoah and his wife were looking on.
— Judges 13:20 —
21And the angel appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife: then Manoah knew that this was an angel of the Lord.
22And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.