Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 3:11

11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I , that I should go unto Pharaoh; and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

What a mean, inconsiderable person am I, how unworthy and unfit for that employment. He was more forward in the work 40 years ago, by reason of the servours of his youth, his inexperience in affairs, the advantage of his power and interest in the Court, by which he thought he could and should procure their deliverance. But now age had made him cool and considerate, the remembrance of his brethrens rejection of him, when he was a great man at Court, took away all probability of prevailing with them to follow him, much more of prevailing with Pharaoh to let them go. Thus Moses falls into that distemper to which most men are prone, of measuring God by himself, and by the probabilities or improbabilities of second causes.

Marginal references: See Isa. 6. 5. Ier. 1. 6.