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Jud 6:22 Strong Concordance And when Gideon [01439] perceived [07200] that he was an angel [04397] of the LORD [03068], Gideon [01439] said [0559], Alas [0162], O Lord [0136] GOD [03069]! for because [03651] I have seen [07200] an angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] face [06440] to face [06440].
  King James And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Alas, O Lord GOD! - Compare Jos 7:7. "because I have seen an angel of the Lord" Compare the marginal references, in which the notion that it was death for mortal man to see God appears clearly. The same notion prevailed among the pagan.
 
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7 And Joshua [03091] said [0559], Alas, O [0162] Lord [0136] GOD [03069], wherefore hast thou at all [05674] brought [05674] this people [05971] over [05674] Jordan [03383], to deliver [05414] us into the hand [03027] of the Amorites [0567], to destroy [06] us? would to God [03863] we had been content [02974], and dwelt [03427] on the other side [05676] Jordan [03383]!
4 Being made [1096] so much [5118] better than [2909] the angels [32], as [3745] he hath by inheritance obtained [2816] a more excellent [1313] name [3686] than [3844] they [846].
23 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Peace [07965] be unto thee; fear [03372] not: thou shalt not die [04191].
20 And he said [0559], Thou canst [03201] not see [07200] my face [06440]: for there shall no man [0120] see [07200] me, and live [02425].