Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Jeremias 1:4

The words of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, come to an end, and the word of the Lord came to me, saying: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I sanctified you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:4-5)

In either case it would have been proper for him to write at the beginning of the book of Genesis: “And G-d spoke to Moses all these words, saying.” The reason it was written anonymously [without the above introductory phrase] is that Moses our teacher did not write the Torah in the first person like the prophets who did mention themselves. For example, it is often said of Ezekiel, And the word of the Eternal came unto me saying: ‘Son of man,’⁷Ezekiel 3:16—17; 12:1, etc. and it is said of Jeremiah, And the word of the Eternal came unto me.⁸Jeremiah 1:4. Moses our teacher, however, wrote this history of all former generations and his own genealogy, history and experiences in the third person. Therefore he says And G-d spoke to Moses, saying to him⁹Exodus 6:2. as if he were speaking about another person. And because this is so, Moses is not mentioned in the Torah until his birth, and even at that time he is mentioned as if someone else was speaking about him.