GOD] That is, the Father; for when the name [God] is mentioned in the Scriptures, with relation unto the Sonne, thereby we are to understand God the Father. at sundry times] Or, by, or, in sundry parts. The Originall word signifieth those severall parts or degrees wherewith the doctrine of the Gospel was revealed unto the Fathers; that it was not at once altogether revealed, but a little: now this, now that, as God in his wisdome saw most requisite. divers] Thereby is meant those severall and different kindes or sorts of revelation, whereby the word God was revealed, as sometimes by Angels, sometimes by Angels, sometimes by visions in the day, sometimes by dreams in the night, &c. sometimes more plainly, sometimes more obscurely. Numbers 12:6. in time past] That is, both before and under the Law. by] O, in. Both prepositions, both in the Hebrew and in the Greek, are promiscuously taken one of the other; yet this latter seems to be more emphaticall in this place, intimating that God moved their hearts and tongues, Matthew 10:20. 2 Corinthians 13:3. 1 Pet. 10, 11, 21. A king speaketh by, he doth not speak in his Ambassadour; God doth both.