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but a memorandum to his son of his condition also: for we are all strangers upon earth, as all our fathers were. Moses had a great uncle almost of the same name, Gershon, a stranger; for though he was born in Canaan (Ge 46:11), yet even there the patriarchs confessed themselves strangers.
2 The other he called Eliezer (Ex 18:4), My God a help, as we translate it; it looks back to his deliverance from Pharaoh, when he made his escape, after the slaying of the Egyptian; but, if this was (as some think) the son that was circumcised at the inn as he was going, I would rather translate it so as to look forward, which the original will bear, The Lord is my help, and will deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh, which he had reason to expect would be drawn against him when he was going to fetch Israel out of bondage.
Note, When we are undertaking any difficult service for God and our generation, it is good for us to encourage ourselves in God as our help: he that has delivered does and will deliver.
3 and her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom [a
stranger there]; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 and the name of the other was Eliezer [my God is an help]; for the
God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 and Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
6 and he said unto Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro am come unto
thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance,
and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
The kind greeting that took place between Moses and his father-in-law, Ex 18:7. Though Moses was a prophet of the Lord, a great prophet, and king in Jeshurun, yet he showed a very humble respect to his father-in-law. However God in his providence is pleased to advance us, we must make