and he called his name] Of these three sonnes the first had his name given by his father, the two latter by their mother; the one it is like by licence, the other by the absence of her husband; for the authoritie of giving names is principally the mans, and the time of imposition was most anciently at the birth, afterwards at the time of circumcision of the child, Chap. 21. 3, 4. &Luke 2:21.