Exodus 4:10 (WEB)
Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
Fathers and councils · 8
John Chrysostom
“And not from this circumstance only were these the greater, but also from their obedience: in that they shrink not, nor are they backward, like those of old;but, warned as they are of perils, and wars, and of those insupportable evils, they receive with great obedience His injunctions, as being heralds of a kingdom.” — editor's note: See Exod. iv. 10–14; Jerem. i. 6.
Read the whole comment“…they were brought into extreme danger; and each of them wishing to withdraw men from idolatry; and each being unlearned; for the one was of a “slow tongue,”and dull of speech, and the other for his part also somewhat of the rudest in his bearing: and of voluntary poverty both were very strict observers; for neither…” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“This He said to the prophets also in the Old Testament continually, as well to Jeremiah objecting his youth,as to Mosesand Ezekielshrinking from the office, “I am with you,” this here also to these men.” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 10, 12.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Moses, also, and Jeremiah, chosen by the Lord to declare the words of God to the people, were for avoiding, through modesty, that which through grace they could do.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For it is a good thing even to hold back from God for a little while, as did the great Moses of old, and Jeremiah later on; and then to run readily to Him when He calls, as did Aaron and Isaiah, so only both be done in a dutiful spirit;—the former because of…” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“Aaron was eager, but Moses resisted, Isaiah readily submitted, but Jeremiah was afraid of his youth, and did not venture to prophesy until he had received from God a promise and power beyond his years.” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 10, 13, 27.
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Aphrahat
“To Moses God said:—The men are dead who were seeking thy life; and to Joseph the angel said in Egypt:—Arise, take up the child, and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead who were seeking the life of the child to take it away.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 10.
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Tertullian
“…which he had not thought of, nay, contrary to what he had thought; and promised “a mouth” to Moses, when he pleaded in excuse the slowness of his speech, and that wisdom which, by Isaiah, He showed to be irresistible: “One shall say, I am the Lord’s, and shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall…” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 10–12.
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Cross-references · 11
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Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 1.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.17.