And he said
In answer to his request:
my presence shall go [with thee];
or before thee, both with Moses and before the people; meaning
the Angel of his presence he had before promised, the eternal
Word and Son of God, who saved them, redeemed them, bore and
carried them all the days of old: or "my faces shall go" {y}; all
the three divine Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit; there was
Jehovah the Father, whose the Angel of his presence was; and
there was Jehovah the Son, Christ, whom they tempted in the
wilderness; and there was Jehovah the Holy Spirit, whom they
vexed, see ( Isaiah
63:9-11 )
and I will give thee rest;
not ease, and peace and tranquillity of mind, or a freedom from
the fear of enemies, and all dangers by them, much less rest in
the grave, before Israel should be brought into Canaan's land;
but rather the promised land itself, which was "the rest" that
was promised, and would be given, and was typical of that eternal
rest which remains for the people of God in heaven, and is a pure
gift; for this promise is not personal and peculiar to Moses, but
belonged to all the people, to whom God would give the typical
rest, see ( Deuteronomy
12:9 ) .