ספורנו — עתה ידעתי / ולא חשכת את בנך את יחידך ממני

Q — How can the angel say "עתה ידעתי כי ירא אלקים אתה" when Hashem (or any divine emissary) cannot "now know" what was previously unknown? And how should we read "ממני" — "more than Me"?

A — Sforno proposes a radical reading: the speaker is the מלאך *himself*, speaking in his own voice, not as Hashem's mouthpiece. "Now I, the angel, understand why Hashem will exalt you above us — גדולים צדיקים יותר ממלאכי השרת (Sanhedrin 93a)." On this reading "ממני" means "more than me — the angel," not "from Me — Hashem." The mid-phrase "ולא חשכת את בנך את יחידך" is a parenthetical that expresses *how* Avraham showed his yirat Elokim. Nothing changed in Hashem's knowledge. What did change was Avraham: before the akeida his yirah was בכוח; after, it was בפועל — and "תפול ידיעתו הפועלת על הנמצא בפועל" (Hashem's active knowledge now rests on an actualized human). The next pasuk's added "נאם ה'" marks the shift back to the angel speaking on Hashem's behalf — which confirms that עתה ידעתי was the angel's own.