| Exodus 3:12
| And he said to him: I will be with thee: and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.
| A sign. Moses had modestly represented his own inability to perform so great a work, and such God generally selects. He encourages them therefore with a sign; to the splendour of which he was then a witness; and with another, which should appear in future, to convince him and all the world, that the undertaking was from God, when they should see him offering sacrifice in that place, out of the reach of Pharao, Exodus 24:3. Thus a future event is assigned to Achaz and Ezechias, as a sign of something that was to happen first. (Isaias 7; 4 Kings 19:29.) Perhaps the sign here appointed is the presence of God enabling Moses to work miracles. (Menochius)
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