And when Gideon perceived that he [was] an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.
Ver. 22. Alas, O Lord God!] Fasciculus temporum, A.D. 884, cries out in the words of this text, Heu, heu, Domine Deus! bittery bewailing the iniquities of those times.
For because I have seen an angel] And shall therefore doubtless die. But how then should he save Israel, as God had promised? Where was now his faith? Was this the "mighty man of valour?"