Jacob felt the same desire, in the interview he had with the angel Genesis 32:29. Reader! what a mercy is it, to you and to me, that that name, which is now so dear to his people, is no longer secret. Now we know him in that lovely name of Jesus, a Saviour; the Lord our righteousness, and all the other precious appellations by which he comes home, revealed to our hearts: and which are as ointment poured forth. Matthew 1:21; Jeremiah 23:6; Song of Solomon 1:3. Oh! thou precious Emanuel; may I so know thy name, as to put my trust in thee. Psalms 9:10.
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Judges 13:17-18
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?