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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 210
God of Hosts, is the speaker and the believers are the people
addressed, as can be readily seen in the words "whom ye
are seeking ... whom ye desire." God says: "Behold, I
send My Messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
My face." But the Gospels have interpolated the text by
effacing the personal pronoun of the first person singular, and
inserted "before thee" (or "thy face," as in Hebrew) twice.
It is generally believed that Matthew wrote his Gospel in the
then vernacular Hebrew or Aramaic in order to prove to the
Jews that God, addressing Jesus Christ, said: "Behold, I
send My messenger (Angel) [such is the version in Matthew
xi. 10] before thee, and he shall prepare thy way before thee;"
and wishes to show that this angel or messenger was John
addressed, as can be readily seen in the words "whom ye
are seeking ... whom ye desire." God says: "Behold, I
send My Messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
My face." But the Gospels have interpolated the text by
effacing the personal pronoun of the first person singular, and
inserted "before thee" (or "thy face," as in Hebrew) twice.
It is generally believed that Matthew wrote his Gospel in the
then vernacular Hebrew or Aramaic in order to prove to the
Jews that God, addressing Jesus Christ, said: "Behold, I
send My messenger (Angel) [such is the version in Matthew
xi. 10] before thee, and he shall prepare thy way before thee;"
and wishes to show that this angel or messenger was John