2/97-98 — Enmity towards an angel
"Say: Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel — it is he who brought it down upon your heart, confirming what came before it… Whoever is an enemy to God, His angels, His messengers, Gabriel and Michael, let him know that God is an enemy to those who cover over."
The objection has slipped to a strange place here: not to the content of the revelation but to its carrier. According to what is transmitted, the identity of the angel who brought the revelation had been put forward as a ground for objection.
The answer comes in two steps. First it is recalled what the work is: the angel does not speak on his own account, he carries — and what he carries is what "confirms what came before it". Then the real address of the enmity is set down: to be an enemy to a messenger because of his errand is to be an enemy to the one who sent him.
The logic here is the same as the general pattern of the section: the stated reason for the objection and its real reason are different. At verse 90 the cause of the refusal was named as envy; here too the ground looks technical, but its function is the same — to find some support for not accepting.