4:1 The angelic messenger 1 who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.
1 tn See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.
1 sn The priest here in the immediate context is Joshua but the fuller and more distant allusion is to the Messiah, a ruling priest. The notion of the ruler as a priest-king was already apparent in David and his successors (Pss 2:2, 6-8; 110:2, 4), and it finds mature expression in David’s greater Son, Jesus Christ, who will combine both offices in his kingship (Heb 5:1-10; 7:1-25).