Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 22:14

14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh , as it is said to this day , in the mount of the LORD it shall be seen .

The same Hebrew Letters differently pointed make the sense either active, the Lord will see, i. e. provide or take care of those that commit themselves and their affairs to him; or passive, the Lord will be seen, i. e. will appear and shew himself in the behalf of all those that love him.

Wherein Moses wrote this Book; this is still used as a Proverb.

(i. e.) In greatest extremities and distresses, as we say, at the pits brink.

Or, the Lord shall be seen or manifested. And although these words are used by way of remembrance of this great deliverance and by way of accommodation, to such like eminent preservations from great dangers; yet they may have a further respect, and may signifie, that this was but an earnest of further and greater blessings to be expected in this place, where the Temple was built, and the Lord Christ was manifested in the Flesh.

Marginal references: That is, the Lord will see or provide.