And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Moïse dit à Dieu: Qui suis-je, pour aller vers Pharaon, et pour faire sortir d'Egypte les enfants d'Israël?
KJV
And Moses said unto God, Who [am] I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Philo Judaeus
De Fuga Et Inventione
ένος ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλεύειν δοκοῦντος ἀντιθέου τρόπου ῥύσομαι, διδάσκεται χρησμῷ, ὅτι „ἔσομαι μετὰ σοῦ“ (Exod. 3,11. 12). ζητήσεις δ’ αἱ τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἔχουσι μὲν γλαφυρὰν θεωρίαν καὶ φιλόσοφον — πῶς γὰρ οὔ; —, ἡ δὲ τοῦ τῶν ὄντων ἀρίστου καὶ ἀσυγκρίτου καὶ πάντων αἰτίου θεοῦ ζήτησις…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
es and Jeremias, who were worthy of the office God chose them for, which they both humbly declined ( Ex. 3:11 ; Jer. 1:6 ). Therefore pusillanimity is not a sin. On the contrary, Nothing in human conduct is to be avoided save sin. Now pusillanimity is to be avoided: for it is wri…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
est (Gen. XXXIX, 12) , qui incongrua suae verecundiae audiens, non poterat diu stare. Moyses quoque (Exod. III, 11, et IV, 10) , et Jeremias (Jerem. I, 6) quod poterant per 380 gratiam, excusabant per verecundiam. Tutius enim est discere quam docere, tacere quam loqui. Quid aute…
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