In what manner God spake to Adam, and Eve, and Cain, and Noah, is not expressed: nor how He spake to Abraham, till such time as he came out of his own country to Sichem, in the land of Canaan; and then ( Gen. 12:7) God is said to have “appeared” to him. So there is one way whereby God made His presence manifest; that is, by an “apparition” or “vision.” And again ( Gen. 15:1), “The word of the Lord came to Abraham, in a vision,” that is to say, somewhat as a sign of God’s presence, appeared as God’s messenger to speak to him. Again, the Lord appeared to Abraham ( Gen. 18:1) by an apparition of three angels, and to Abimelech ( Gen. 20:3) in a dream; to Lot ( Gen. 19:1) by an apparition of two angels; and to Agar ( Gen. 21:17) by the apparition of one angel; and to Abraham again ( Gen.