Question III. By whom was this same change of name made?

St. Jerome, at the beginning [of his commentary] on Hosea chapter 1, says [it was] made by God; but the text cited from Numbers chapter 13 [says it was] by Moses — yet both [are] true. For by a divine inspiration, through prophecy, Moses did this very thing, as Masius acknowledges in the preface to [his] commentaries on Joshua. Otherwise it mattered little whether he was called Osee or Iosue, especially since one and the same notion is subject to both, as was expounded in question 1. And so the name given to JESUS our Lord is wont to be said [given] sometimes by GOD, because the heavenly messenger Gabriel bore His commands; sometimes by this same Archangel — but rather by that [former, i.e. God], as Cyril says (book On the Faith, to Theodosius), and beautifully St. Bernard (sermon 4, on the Circumcision): “The name,” he says, “was called by the Angel, not imposed [by him]; for this name is His from eternity. He has [it] from His own nature, that He is Saviour: this name is innate to Him, not put upon Him by human or angelic nature.”