Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 4:1

1 AND Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me , nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, the LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

Which he conjectured both from reason, because the greatness and strangeness of the deliverance made it seem incredible, and their minds were so oppressed with cares and labours, that it was not likely they could raise them up to any such expectation; and from the experience which he had of them forty years before, when their deliverance by his means and interest at Court seemed much more credible, then now it did.