Exodus 7:1

VII.

(1) See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh... — This is God’s answer to the objection of Moses that his lips were uncircumcised (Exodus 6:12), and probably followed it immediately. The force of it would seem to be: “Thou art not called on to speak, but to act. In action thou wilt be to Pharaoh as a god — powerful, wonder-working, irresistible; it is Aaron who will have to speak to him, and he is eloquent” (Exodus 4:14).

Thy prophet. — Or spokesman — the declarer of thy mind, which is the primary sense of “prophet.”