Exodus 4:13 (WEB)
Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
Fathers and councils · 3
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.
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John Cassian
“…O Lord, provide another whom Thou mayest send,” or as it stands still more clearly in the Hebrew text: “I beseech Thee, O Lord, send whom Thou wilt send.”” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 13. Where the LXX. has Δέομαι, κύριε, προχείρισαι δυνάμενον ἄλλον ὃν ἀποστελεῖς, which was followed by the old Latin. Jerome however rendered the…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“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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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.3.