Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 13:23

23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Or, at this time: the Particle, as, noting here, not likeness, but the truth and reality of the thing, as it doth Numb. 11. 1. Deut. 9. 10. and elsewhere. This Expression seems to have some Emphasis in it, to enhance Gods Mercy to them, as being afforded them in a time of such publick and grievous Calamity; and in a time when the Word of the Lord was precious; and there was no open Vision, as it was afterwards, 1 Sam. 3. 1.