3. I . . . God Almighty--All enemies must fall, all
difficulties must vanish before My omnipotent power, and the patriarchs
had abundant proofs of this.
but by my name, &c.--rather, interrogatively, by My name Jehovah
was I not known to them? Am not I, the Almighty God, who pledged My
honor for the fulfilment of the covenant, also the self-existent God
who lives to accomplish it? Rest assured, therefore, that I shall bring
it to pass. This passage has occasioned much discussion; and it has
been thought by many to intimate that as the name Jehovah was not known
to the patriarchs, at least in the full bearing or practical experience
of it, the honor of the disclosure was reserved to Moses, who was the
first sent with a message in the name of Jehovah, and enabled to attest
it by a series of public miracles.
JFB.
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