by no meanes clearing] Moses pleading with God for mercy, bringeth in a description of God, set downe by God himselfe, which he impartially repeateth, because God in prayer would be spoken of in such manner; yet Moses while he sueth for mercy to many, may hereby intimate an assent to Gods justice if he please to exercise it upon some principall offenders in this rebellion; which if they were cut off, there might be more safety for the rest: or he might by the words next following intimate a deferring of his justice untill the third and fourth generation. Reade Exod. 32. which will cleare this doubt, touching this mention of mercy and justice together.