The answer
It is the work of the leaders to create a spirit of leadership in others, so that the ministry might not be concentrated in them alone: “But note that God said to Moses in this place, ‘Go before the people and take with you men advanced in years, that is the elders of the people’ (Ex. 17:5). Moses alone does not lead the people to the waters of the rock, but also the elders of the people with him. For the Law alone does not announce Christ, but also the prophets and patriarchs and all ‘those advanced in years’”1609
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
1609 Origen, Homilies on Exodus 11.2 (FOTC 71:357).