sation against himself, he said, " No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day." " Moses was called faithful in all God's house ; ^ and through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt ^ with plagues and tortures. Yet he, though thus greatly honoured, did not adopt lofty language, but said, when the divine oracle came to him out of the bush, '< Who am I, that Thou sendest me ? I am a man of a feeble voice and a slow tongue." '* And again he said, " I am but as the smoke of a pot." s