George Leo Haydock, on Judg 13:22

“And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.”

“Seen God: not in his own person, but in the person of his messenger. The Israelites, in those days imagined they should die if they saw an angel, taking occasion perhaps from those words spoken by the Lord to Moses, (Exodus xxxiii. 20.) No man shall see me and live. But the event demonstrated that it was but a groundless imagination. (Challoner) — Elohim is applied to angels and men, as well as to God. (Calmet)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.