8.  Now here I wish you to make safe what I am going to say, because of the Jews.  For our object is to prove that the Lord Jesus Christ was with the Father.  The Lord then says to Moses, I will pass by before thee with My glory, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee Ex. xxxiii. 19.  Literally “will call in the name of the Lord (Jehovah):”  compare Gen. iv. 26..  Being Himself the Lord, what Lord doth He proclaim?  Thou seest how He was covertly teaching the godly doctrine of the Father and the Son.  And again, in what follows it is written word for word:  And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.  And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, both keeping righteousness and shewing mercy unto thousands, taking away iniquities, and transgressions, and sins Ex. xxxiv. 5–7.  For “keeping righteousness and shewing mercy,” the Hebrew has only “keeping mercy.”.  Then in what follows, Moses bowed his head and worshipped Ex. xxxiv. 8. before the Lord who proclaimed the Father, and said:  Go Thou then, O Lord, in the midst of us Ib. xxxiv. 9..