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He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
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A Plea to Be Excused
Commentators agree that Moses's statement is a final, desperate plea for God to choose someone else. Rather than a pious request for the Messiah, as some have suggested, most scholars see it as a blunt refusal. Charles Ellicott calls the speech "curt, impatient, and scarcely reverent," while John Calvin states Moses simply wants the difficult task "transferred to someone else."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And he said — The reluctance of Moses is in accordance with the inner law of man’s spiritual development, and especially with his own charac…
19th Century
Anglican
Send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.—Rather, please send by whom you will. A curt, impatie…
16th Century
Protestant
Send, I pray you, by the hand. Those who interpret this passage as alluding to Christ,53 as though Moses said that His power wa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, O my Lord Acknowledging his dominion, his sovereignty, his power to do the above things: or "on me, O L…
Moses continued to shrink from the work God designed him for; there was much cowardice, slothfulness, and unbelief in him. We must not judge men by…
