He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him.
16. And he shall be thy spokesman. God destroys the pretext for his exemption, by assigning to his brother the office of spokesman, and yet does He not put the other in his place; nay, so merciful is the arrangement, that while He yields to His servant’s prayer, He yet confers honor upon him in spite of himself.
Moses persists in backward steps, and we cannot now call it humility but must own cowardice, slothfulness, and unbelief. He was a great mind but no orator, and thought himself unfit for great affairs; yet God often chooses those with fewest natural advantages, that His grace may shine the brighter. An unwilling mind will seize any sorry excuse rather than obey.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 4:10-17
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people,.... And open to them Moses's commission from God, and the end of his mission into Egypt, and to them, and declare what signs had been, and would be done, in confirmation of it: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth; or an interpreter, as all the Targums explain it...