It was a fine aspiration, worthy of the man who uttered it and the occasion on which he spoke. It was the reaching out of a darker dispensation after Gospel light, the reflections wishing to lose themselves in the great original. It was earth longing after heaven the restlessness of earth longing for that which should be Divine, the rest of desire.
I. There are three kinds of glory: (1) the glory of circumstances; (2) moral glory; (3) the glory of the sense or consciousness that everything goes back to the Creator, encircling Him with His own proper perfections, the living of God in the adoration, gratitude, and service of His creatures. Moses saw all three. His prayer had an answer on the Mount of Transfiguration.
II. It was a very remarkable answer that God made to him. "I will make My kindness pass before thee." Kindness is glory. The glory of God was in Jesus Christ. That was the manifestation of the glory of God that is, kindness. God is love. He has many attributes, but they meet to make love.
All God's attributes unite together, and His glory is His goodness.
J. Vaughan, Meditations in Exodus,p. 91.