Chūāijíjì 4:10

10 Móxī duì Yēhéhuá shuō , Zhǔ a , wǒ sù rì bù shì néng yán de rén , jiù shì cóng nǐ duì púrén shuōhuà yǐhòu , yĕ shì zhèyàng . wǒ bĕn shì zhuō kǒu bèn shé de .

Chūāijíjì 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 4:10

And Moses said unto the Lord
Notwithstanding the above miracles, he seems unwilling to go on the Lord's errand to Pharaoh and to the Israelites, and therefore invents a new objection after all his other objections had been sufficiently answered: I am not eloquent;
or "a man of words" ^F19, that has words at command, that can speak well readily, and gracefully; such an one, he intimates, was proper to be sent to a king's court, that was an orator, that could make fine speeches, and handsome addresses, for which he was not qualified: neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken to thy servant;
neither in his younger years had he ever been an eloquent man, nor was there any alteration in him in that respect, since God had given him this call: but I [am] slow of speech, and of a slow tongue;
had some impediment in his speech, could not freely and easily bring out his words, or rightly pronounce them; so Lucian ^F20 the Heathen calls Moses slow tongued, or one slow of speech, and uses the same word the Septuagint does here, which version perhaps he had seen, and from thence took it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Myrbd vya) "vir verborum", Paguinus, Montanus, Piscator, Ainsworth.
F20 In Philopatride.

Chūāijíjì 4:10 In-Context

8 Yòu shuō , tǎnghuò tāmen bú tīng nǐde huà , yĕ bú xìn tóu yī gè shénjī , tāmen bì xìn dì èr gè shénjī .

9 Zhè liǎng gè shénjī ruò dōu bú xìn , yĕ bú tīng nǐde huà , nǐ jiù cóng hé lǐ qǔ xiē shuǐ , dǎo zaì hàndì shàng , nǐ cóng hé lǐ qǔ de shuǐ bì zaì hàndì shàng biàn zuò xuè .

10 Móxī duì Yēhéhuá shuō , Zhǔ a , wǒ sù rì bù shì néng yán de rén , jiù shì cóng nǐ duì púrén shuōhuà yǐhòu , yĕ shì zhèyàng . wǒ bĕn shì zhuō kǒu bèn shé de .

11 Yēhéhuá duì tā shuō , shuí zào rén de kǒu ne , shuí shǐ rénkǒu yē , ĕr lóng , mù míng , yǎn xiā ne , qǐbù shì wǒ Yēhéhuá ma .

12 Xiànzaì qù ba , wǒ bì cì nǐ kǒu cái , zhǐjiào nǐ suǒ dàng shuō de huà .