Deuteronomy 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

Ver. 9. I am not able.] Politici et ecclesiastici labores maximi sunt, saith Luther. None have so hard a tug of it as magistrates and ministers. Iσοθεοι ημεν, ει μη και πραγατα και φροντιδας και φσβους υπερ παντας τους ιδιοτευοντας ειχομεν, said Augustus to his Livia. Had we not businesses, and cares, and fears, above any private person, we should be equal to the gods. a

a Dio Cass.

Deuteronomy 1:9

9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: