Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 3:16

16 Go and gather the Elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

Either by age, or rather by Office and authority. For though they were all s[illegible: 1+ letters]ayes to the Egyptians, yet among themselves they retained some order and government, and, ha[illegible: 1+ letters] doubtless some whom they owned as their Teachers and rulers, as heads of Tribes and [illegible: 1+ letters]milies, &c.

Marginal references: chap. 4. 29.