And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, You God, see me: for she said, Have I also here seen him that sees me?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Thou the God. She had imagined before that she was talking to some man; but perceiving, at parting, that it was some superior being, she invoked him thus.
The hinder parts, as Moses did afterwards, Exodus 33, to let us know, that we cannot fully comprehend the nature of an angel, much less of God. Hebrew may be: "what! have I seen (do I live) after He has seen me." The Hebrews generally supposed, that death would presently overtake the person who had seen the Lord or his angel. (Judges vi. 22; Exodus 32. 20.) (Calmet)
