Douay-Rheims Bible: Exodus — Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Notes by Richard Challoner
Chapter 4
SummaryMoses is empowered to confirm his mission with miracles: his brother Aaron is appointed to assist him.
[4:21] I shall harden, etc. . .Not by being the efficient cause of his sin; but by withdrawing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of grace that might have softened his heart; and so suffering him to grow harder and harder.
[4:24] The Lord met him, and would have killed him. . . This was an angel representing the Lord, who treated Moses in this manner, for having neglected the circumcision of his younger son; which his wife understanding, circumcised her child upon the spot, upon which the angel let Moses go.