Let me goe I pray thee] In this condescending so low, as to aske leave of his father in law to visit his brethren in Egypt, (after so high and divine acceptation) Moses sheweth an example of great modesty and humilitie: his familiaritie with God did not puffe him up to contempt of men, especially of such, as (by a subordinate relation) he was obliged to reverence: yet this mannerly respect to man, did not abate of his obedience to God, nor did he thinke his father in law would disswade him from what he desired, or if he did, no doubt he was resolved to obey God, rather then man, See Acts 5:29. to see whether] He mentioneth nothing but a visit: it may be he was charged not to reveale his Commission from God, untill he came to the place, where he was to put it in practise: if so, it was his pietie to conceale it: if not so, his prudence, lest his father in law (by proposing difficulties, if not impossibilities, in the undertaking, and dangers in attempting) should endeavour to bring him back, to his former diffidence, and indisposition to the service, and so make him, if not wholly to desert it, yet more faintly, or lesse cheerfully, to goe on with it, by reason of doubts, and perils before him, and discontent left behind him, with his dissenting and disswading father in law. whether they be] He pleadeth a reason of common charitie, and forbeareth the reasons of divinitie, to wit, the revelation from God: an argument of his prudence, modesty, and humilitie: for if he had not been prudent, he could not have kept in such miraculous secrets; and if he had not been modest, and humble, he would have made mention of them with jollity and glory. See Esther 5:12.