Matthew 1:24

1:24 When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord ¹  told him. He took his wife,

[1:24]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20. Here the translation “the angel of the Lord” is used because the Greek article (ὁ, Jo) which precedes ἄγγελος (angelos) is taken as an anaphoric article (ExSyn 217-19) referring back to the angel mentioned in v. 20.