11:12 Have I {g} conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the {h} land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
(g) Am I their father, that no one may have charge of them but I?
(h) Of Canaan promised by another to our fathers.
11:12 Have I begotten them? - Are they my children, that I should be obliged to provide food and all things for their necessity and desire?
11:10-15 The provocation was very great; yet Moses expressed himself otherwise than became him. He undervalued the honour God had put upon him. He magnified his own performances, while he had the Divine wisdom to direct him, and Almighty power to dispense rewards and punishments. He speaks distrustfully of the Divine grace. Had the work been much less he could not have gone through it in his own strength; but had it been much greater, through God strengthening him, he might have done it. Let us pray, Lord, lead us not into temptation.
