When the Lord saw... God called. — Heb., When Jehovah saw, Elohim called. The German theory of two authors of Exodus, one Jehovistic and the other Elohistic, is completely refuted by this passage; for it is impossible to ascribe one clause of a sentence to one author, and the next to another. If originally the same term had been used in both places, a reviser would not have altered one without altering both.
Moses, Moses. — Comp. Genesis 26:11; 1 Samuel 3:10; and Acts 9:4. The repetition marks extreme urgency.