And he said, hear now my words
The Targum of Jonathan reads, "I beseech you"; and Jarchi says,
this particle always so signifies; but it is not so agreeable to
the language of the divine Being:
if there be a prophet among you;
not as making a doubt of it, but rather allowing that there was,
and that there were others besides Moses, as even they
themselves, Aaron and Miriam, and the seventy elders, and perhaps
others; or at least there had been, and would be again, as there
were in later times:
[I] the Lord will make myself known to him;
that is, declare my mind and will concerning things present, or
things to come:
in a vision;
when awake, either by day or by night, representing objects to
the bodily sight; as the almond tree rod, and the boiling pot, to
Jeremiah, ( Jeremiah
1:11-13 ) ; the visions of the chariots, ( Ezekiel
23:24 ) ( Ezekiel 26:7
Ezekiel
26:10 ) , and dry bones, ( Ezekiel
37:1-14 ) , to Ezekiel, and such as were shown to Amos, (
Amos
7:1-9:15 ) : or to the mind by night, as if really discerned
by the senses; as the visions of the man riding on a red horse, (
Zechariah
1:8 ) , and of the four horns, ( Zechariah
1:18 ) , and four carpenters, ( Zechariah
1:20 ) , with several others shown to Zechariah:
[and] will speak unto him in a dream;
as he had done to Jacob, ( Genesis
31:11 ) , and as he did afterwards to Daniel, ( Daniel 7:1 ) , and many
others.