...which he thought favourable to that belief. 240. Origenis in Jeremiam, Homil. I. vol. III. p. 128. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child, (i. 6.) Origen supposes, rather fancifully perhaps, that these words are spoken in the person of Christ...

...from the womb, and ordained a prophet to the nations, when he received his commission, he cried out, Ah! Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. And Ezekiel though strengthened and confirmed by God, yet went unwillingly; yea, in the bitterness...

...but am slow of speech and of a slow tongue ;" and Jeremiah besought the Lord to excuse him, saying, " Ah, Lord God, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child ;" and Isaiah, though it is probable his words referred more directly to moral unfitness, when contemplating...

...from the womb, and ordained a prophet to the nations, when he received his commission, he cried out, Ah! Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child. And Ezekiel though strengthened and confirmed by God, yet went unwillingly; yea, in the bitterness...

...office, declined it under an idea that he was " a child, and unable to speak." But God said to him, " Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak»." His » Jer. i. 4—7. pretended insufficiency for the work...

...earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee ; and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak ; for I am a child. 7 IT But the LORD said unto me, -Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send...

...mountains in my path, and of my own littleness, I trembled, and exclaimed in the language of Jeremiah,—' Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak : for I am a child.' But I was immediately strengthened by these interrogations : ' Is any thing too hard for the Lord ?' Is...

...in my path, and of my own littleness, I trembled, and exclaimed in the language .of Jeremiah, — ' Ah, Lord God ! behold I cannot speak : for I am a child.' But I was immediately strengthened by these interrogations : ' Is any thing too hard for the Lord ?' Is...

...being the Lord's messenger, saying, 'I am a man of unclean lips;' and Jeremiah was led to exclaim, 'Ah, Lord •God ! behold I cannot speak; for I am a child.' Moses knew that he was obnoxious to Pharaoh, odious to the Egyptian nation, and not in faver with his...

...commission ; he felt his own insignificance so poignantly, that in the language of complaint he said : " Ah, LORD God ! behold I cannot speak, for I am a child." What was the return ? — " Say not I am a child, for thou shalt go to all that I will send thee ;...