Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
⛓ Read Exodus 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Who is sufficient for these things?' echoes Moses' protest of inadequacy at his call ('I am not eloquent... I am slow of speech'), the paradigm of human insufficiency for a divine commission answered by God's enabling. Paul's rhetorical question and his later 'our sufficiency is from God' (3:5) make the call-narrative resonance coherent. Medium.
Medium confidence'Mighty in his words and works' stands in pointed tension with Moses' own self-description as 'slow of speech'; the haggadic praise of Moses' eloquence amplifies the biblical figure.
Low confidencePaul's request to address the hostile crowd, beckoning for silence before a defense, faintly recalls the OT pattern of the divinely commissioned spokesman who must speak to a resistant people; the connection is typological and weak, with no verbal borrowing.
Low confidence