The Son of God, who oft appeared in man's shape, before he took man's nature, is called an Angel or Messenger, because he was the Angel of the covenant, Zechariah 3:1, and was sent upon divers messages to men in the Old Testament, and at last was to be sent in the flesh as God's great Ambassador, or Messenger of peace and reconciliation. Shur, a place near Egypt, Genesis 25:18 1 Samuel 15:7 Exodus 15:22, being her native country.
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Genesis 16:7
7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.