Also ( Exod. 14:19) the angel that went before the army of Israel to the Red Sea, and then came behind it, is (verse 24) the Lord himself; and He appeared, not in the form of a beautiful man, but in form ( Exod. 13:21), by day, of a “pillar of cloud,” and, by night, in form of a “pillar of fire”; and yet this pillar was all the apparition and “angel” promised to Moses ( Exod. 33:2) for the army’s guide: for this cloudy pillar ( Exod. 33:9) is said to have descended, and stood at the door of the Tabernacle, and to have talked with Moses.