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The name of the Lord: the words of the Lord, or of Jehovah, are here conveniently supplied out of Lev_24:16, where they are expressed, but here they are omitted for the aggravation of his crime. He
blasphemed the name, so called by way of eminency; that name which is above every name; that name which a man should in some sort tremble to mention; which is not to be named without cause and without reverence. For which reason the godly Jews did many times rather understand than express the name of God, as Mar_14:62, the right hand of power, for of the power of God, as it is Luk_22:69; and the Blessed for the blessed God, Mat_26:63 Mar_14:61. And cursed, not the Israelite only, but his God also, as appears from Lev_24:15,16.
They brought him; either the people who heard him, or the inferior magistrate, to whom he was first brought.
Unto Moses, according to the order settled by Jethro’s advice, Exo_18:26.