'I am not able to bear all this people alone, because
it is too heavy for me.'
NUM. xi. 14.
Detail the circumstances.
The leader speaks the truth in his despondency. He is pressed with the
feeling of his incapacity for his work. We may take his words here as
teaching us what men need in him who is to be their guide, and how
impossible it is to find what they need in mere men.