These comments look parallel to me so I take them together. The point about personification not being seen as a distinct person in the Hebrew Scriptures is correct. However, the claim that this imagery was a misread of the Christians is incorrect. What Christians were claiming is that Jesus was the manifestation in a visible way of an act of the unseen God by one who makes him visible (See John 1:14-18). Thus the claim developed the imagery of Judaism; it did not mistakenly read it in a wrong way. If Jesus were merely a human being used by God, then why did he call himself Son of Man as his favorite self designation, a figure for divine authority, since the figure rides the clouds like deity?

dlb