A second response employs the concept of delegation or reported speech. A monarch’s envoy may announce, “We have decreed,” while conveying the sovereign’s command. The envoy is not thereby claiming to be the monarch himself; the sentence reports the authority behind the message.
By analogy, words or acts attributed to God when uttered through a messenger need not imply that the messenger possesses intrinsic divinity. The principal source of authority and the transmitter remain distinct.
This example establishes a possible form of language, not a definitive interpretation of every theological text. The intended referent of a particular statement must still be assessed in its own setting.