Exodus 33:19

goodness goodliness or comeliness, viz. of the Divine appearance; cf. Hosea 10:11 (lit. -the goodness, i.e. comeliness, of her neck"). -It is to be a spectacle of outward beauty as a visible sign of His moral perfection" (McNeile).

proclaim the name of Jehovah] and so manifest the character implied in it here, in particular, Jehovah's moralcharacter. The name was regarded by the Hebrews as the expression of the character of the person denoted by it: see e.g. Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 4:3; Isaiah 61:3 b (the names here mentioned are to be given to Zion or Israel, because they will possess the qualities denoted by them).

and I will be gracious, &c. In virtue of the graciousness implicit in His name (Exodus 34:6 f.), He will shew grace and mercy to such as deserve it. Who these are, is not expressly stated; but fallen and penitent Israel is what is intended. For the form of sentence called the idem per idemconstruction, which is idiomatic in both Heb. and Arabic, where the means, or the desire, to be more explicit does not exist, cf. Exodus 3:14; Exodus 4:13, Exo 16:23, 1 Samuel 23:13 (lit. and they went where they went), 2 Samuel 15:20 (-seeing I am going whither I am going"), 2 Kings 8:1 (-and sojourn where thou wilt sojourn"); and see the writer's Notes on Samuel, on 1 S. l.c.The second -will" in each sentence is a simple future: it must not be emphasized as though it meant -wish to" (θέλω). The quotation (from LXX.) in Romans 9:15 (-I will have mercy on whom I have mercy &c.") expresses the sense exactly. All that is said here is that God is gracious to those to whom He is gracious: on the motives which may prompt Him to be gracious, the passage is silent. See further p. 54.