“But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,”
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out - the miraculous deliverance happens 'during the night,' in darkness, suggesting divine action hidden from human sight. The 'angel of the Lord' (angelos kyriou) is a direct emissary of God's will, making the escape a theophanic event. This recalls similar prison deliverances in Jewish tradition (cf. 2 Kings 6:17, 1 Maccabees 2:24).
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