“And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.”
The angel said to him, I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news — the self-identification as Gabriel (strength of God) is the angel's credential: not any messenger but the one who stands in the divine presence, the same Gabriel who appeared to Daniel (Daniel 8:16, 9:21) with the messianic timeline. I have been sent (apestaln) by God to tell you this — the authority is not the angel's own but the commission of the divine court. The message is explicitly good news (euangelisasthai) — the first use of the gospel vocabulary in Luke.
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