Question VII. When, and how, did the Lord command the extension of the hand and shield?

I: He commanded [it] in the very feigning of flight, when [Joshua] ran from the valley toward the desert, partly to the North, partly to the East. II: But Abulensis thinks (q. 9) [that] God commanded this to Joshua by some exterior voice, indeed, but [one] which an Angel formed — not [an Angel] who appeared to him in an assumed human figure, but [one] who lay hidden, concealed in some surrounding cloud. I would prefer to think God spoke to him by a spiritual voice, which he formed in his [Joshua’s] intellect by itself, or in [his] imagination through an Angel — as I set forth when I treated of Prophecy at the beginning of [my commentary on] Isaiah, and again in the Biblical Prolegomena.