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2. He assures him of success, and that the Israelites should serve God upon this mountain. Note,
(1.) Those deliverances are most valuable which open to us a door of liberty to serve God.
(2.) If God gives us opportunity and a heart to serve him, it is a happy and encouraging earnest of further favours designed us.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children
of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them?
He begs instructions for the executing of his commission, and has them, thoroughly to furnish him. He desires to know by what name God would at this time make himself known, Ex 3:13.
1. He supposes the children of Israel would ask him, What is his name? This they would ask either,
(1.) To perplex Moses: he foresaw difficulty, not only in dealing with Pharaoh, to make him willing to part with them, but in dealing with them, to make them willing to remove. They would be scrupulous and apt to cavil, would bid him produce his commission, and probably this would be the trial: "Does he know the name of God? Has he the watch-word?" Once he was asked, Who made thee a judge? Then he had not his answer ready, and he would not be nonplussed so again, but would be able to tell in whose name he came. Or,
(2.) For their own information. It is to be feared that they had grown very ignorant in Egypt, by reason of their hard bondage, want of teachers, and loss of the Sabbath, so that they needed to be told the first principles of the oracles of God. Or this question, What is his name? Amounted to an enquiry into the