Tender correction that comes from the source of a directive is, oftentimes, even harder than talking to an intermediary. For instance; how different it would have been, for Aaron, the priest; if he had been required to speak to his Ultimate Boss, the LORD God, without buffering by Moses, the servant, prophet and friend of God As things were arrayed, Moses was an intermediary to Aaron’s Ultimate Boss. Moses is the pattern for the reporting relationship that is closer to the top. Such intermediaries are conditioned to carry a burden that presses from two directions: the dependent’s proposal, and, the authority’s final pronouncement. On the dependent side, the major activity involved; gathering information: as was done, here.
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
(2 Samuel 7:1-3)
From the authority figure, the intermediary receives the ordained statement of action; as Nathan did, here.
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