MOSES, Sylvester Hassell His long and splendid human training in Egypt had not corrected his natural rashness and self-confidence; therefore God disciplines him in humility forty years in the wilderness, apart from human habitations; and, as the result of his Divine schooling, Moses becomes the most meek, patient and self-distrustful of men, feeling himself, when he was really most qualified, to be least qualified for the great work of delivering and leading (Num. 12:3; Ex. 4:1-17).
And so, about 1500 years afterwards, the rash and self-confident Saul of Tarsus, who was to become the great apostle of the Gentiles, was led by the providence and Spirit of God into this same Arabian desert, far from flesh and blood, and there effectually taught, not by men, but by God, the utter insufficiency of all human learning and all legal righteousness— even the strictest obedience to the law given by Moses—and the glorious freeness and almighty power of the gospel of the Son of God (Gal. 1:1-24; Phil. 3:3-11; Rom. 1:15,16).” (Hassell)