And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Moses objects his stammering as cause for refusal, but God replies: I alone govern the tongue I created. If some are dumb and others eloquent, the difference is wholly My pleasure. He who made nature can remedy any impediment; it was wrong of Moses to hesitate as if the Author of nature could not accomplish what He has decreed.
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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.
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Commenting on Exodus 4:10-17
He who made the mouth itself and gave it the power of speech, could He not remove impediments and make it speak freely? All the senses and their perfections come from Him, so too do their imperfections, according to His good pleasure. What is it that He cannot do?
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