Exodus 3:11

Who am I, that. should go unto Pharaoh?

Moses puts in many pleas to be excused from this grave task. The Lord patiently and encouragingly hears all these scruples of his creature's mind, gives. satisfactory explanation, and applies. complete remedy to every difficulty, until there is nothing in the mind of Moses but an unreasonable shrinking from an arduous and honorable task. Even then he provides. full relief for the trembling heart in the eloquence and company of his brother Aaron. Thus gradually and tenderly he prepares the mind of his servant for acquiescing in, and then heartily devoting himself to, the high office to which he is called.-- Murphy. The change in the character of Moses since his first attempt is strongly marked by these words, which, however, indicate humility, not fear. Among the grounds which he alleges for his hesitation in no instance is there any allusion to personal danger; what he feared was failure owing to incompetency, especially in the power of expression. This shrinking from self-assertion is the quality which seems to be specially intimated by the word rendered "meek," in Numbers 12:3.-- Canon Cook. No chronicler in after times, when Moses was the great hero, the mighty champion of the nation, would have so spoken of him; but all through the Pentateuch Moses ever takes. most humble and modest place. None but himself would have drawn so close. veil over his greatness. It is only at his death, in the last chapter, added by another hand, that his high dignity is declared. There he is the prophet whose like Israel had never seen, with whom the Lord spake face to face, the worker of mighty wonders, the "servant," or, as the phrase really means, "the vicegerent of Jehovah."-- R. Payne Smith.