Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 149

violent in executing that bloody Decree, and the Child growing up | - , TEE was more likely to be diſcovered, eſpecially ſeing the Egyprians | 26 Now the t Prieſt : of Midian had ſeven daugh- + Or; dwelt among them, Exod: 3: 22. e That Boats were made of fuch | ters, and they came and drew water, and filled the pr;yy materials in thoſe parts, 1s evident from Iſai: 18: 2: and from the | troughs to warer their fathers flock. ; Teſtimonies of Herod, Pliny, and others. * Slime within, and pitch ; Nor of Idols, for then Moſes would not have married into his without. f Which grew near the Rivers fide ; partly. thas the | Family ; but of the true God ; for ſome ſuch were in thoſe ancient Veſſel mighr not be carried away, and overturned by the violence times here and there, as appears by Melchiſedeck, rhough his manner of the Winds and Water, and partly that the Child might be ſooner of Worſhippiag God might be ſuperſtitious and corrupt : Or the ar eh and more caſily taken out thence: by any kind hand, | Hebrew Cohen may here ſignify @ Prince or a Potentate, as Gen. 42. 45. which ſhe hoped for. _ _ _ Pls 0 ne of his _ co pr rhatrcanſlation, A . . ecauſe Principalities were then many of them very ſmall and _ 4 rang ftood afar off g, to wit what would | can, and becauſe this employment then was pr atk ny Oo" and . : : worthy of great mens Daughters, as appears from Ger: 24: 15; and - * hat _ might not be thought to have laid the Child there, or | 29: 6, &c. to be related to it. 17 And the ſhepherds came and drove them away « : 5 © And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to but Moſes ſtood up and helped them x, and watered waſh her ſelf at the river, and her maidens walked along their flock. by the river ſide: and when ſhe ſaw the ark among the | * That they might enjoy the fruit of their Labours, and make Flags, ſhe ſent her maid to fetch it. -=_ - he I _ rake _ their own Cattel. x Mo & knd h ol nq; zr by perſwading them with fair werds, or by force; for Moſes Fs when ſhe had opened ;c, (he ſaw the child : | was ſtrong, and full of courage, and reſolution, wharewith the an ng __ _ A had compaſlion | Shepherds were ealily daunted. on him, and lai his is one Of the T . | Mais yy 3 Hebrews child. 1 © on when they came to Reuel their father x, _ k This ſhe might very probably gueſsboth from the circumſtances ; n —_ TORI 9 at YOU 256 Cn lo foon - in which ſh- found him, and from the finguar fairneſs and beauty 75 of the Child, far differing from the Exyp:;an hew ; and ſhe might | _,* Either 1- Strily, and then he-is the ſame who elſewhere is certaialy know it by its circumciſion. OP — Exodus go I oft-times, and, as ſome think, ge obab, Judges 4: 11. r 2. Largely, 7 e. their Grandfather, f 7 Then faid his fiſter to Pharaohs daughter, Shall ] | cb are oft called fathers, as Gan: 31: 43: 2 Kings 14: 3, &e. and go, and call to thee a nurſe of the Hebrew women | '& = and 18: 3: fo he was the Father of Jethro, os Hobab, Numbers that ſhe may nurſe the child for thee ? 7 hed G; SL FE ba 8 And Pharaohs daughter faid unto her, Go: and et 20 __ on Egypoea 1» Colyergy! Gen the maid went and called the childs mother. 00 no Ro of the ſhepherds, and alſo drew, water 9 And Pharaohs-daughter ſaid unto her, Take this enough © FR odmny ef rEapary hid : ” ; ig y So they gueſſed him to be/by his Habit and Speech, or he told child away and nurſe it for me, and I will give thee | them that he came from thence. z Heb- 1» drawing drew, which thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nurſed _ that he drew it very diligently and readily, which cauſed their > at, quick return. | \ a ARGOS 04 qe gn ſhe brought him unto | 29 And he faid unto his daughters, And whers is a 1s daughter, an he became her ſon;, And ſhe | he? Why isit that ye have lefr 2 the man ? Call him, ' « | In " m = _ + Moſes k: and tbe ſaid, Becauſe I drew | that he may cat bread. - hit of the water. a Heb.. Have left thus, or now, at this time of the day, when it 13 z By adoption, Heb. 1 1+24. For as Philo reports, ſhe, though long ſo late, and he a Stranger and Traveller. | | Y, —— no ng of ay own; and —, treated him as her 21 And Moſes was content b to dwell with the man, , ave him Royal E:ucation and In?rufion. See Ats 7. es Z1 is d: | 21, & It matters not whether this be an Egyptian name, or ws Hebrew _ : arts __ : ——_—_ ans RG 4 name anſwering to it in ſisnification, ſering the meaning of ir is hz x] conſent nn mrs or offer.” Ang 530 185/p reſent and tem- » explained 5 , 5 is here | porary Repole there is turned into a ſettled Habitet.on. c Whom p ; ; Moſes married not inſtantly, bur after ſome years -of acquaintance P II | And it came to paſs in thoſe days 1 when with the Farmly, as may probably be gatkered from the youngneſs » nie was grown thas his warn and Ks * and uncircumciednels of one of his Sons 49 years after this, Exod. brethren », and looked on their burdens, and he k nw. h , ” pps woe —_—_— — , 5 : -C L n Ee | knowledge of the true God, whici he was able exceileatly to do, fo ſpied an Egyptian ſmicing an Hebrew, one of his | it 1s likely he had ſucceeded therein in ſome mealure, = therefore brethren. married Zipporah. ! Whileſt Moſes lived at Court, and was owned as the Son of Pha- "_ j nr, ans; as rote wg 6 gprr ng ſucceed Pharaoh in F 22 -And ſhe bare him a {on, and he called his name e Throne. m To maturity #being 40 years ol » Affts 7: 23. nPartl Gerihom 1 X . : ; by natural AffeCtion and Inclination, that he de Dead of {t;: —_ voe-bg =, 4 Dave DRmk8 Rranger PERRY Chap: his Brethren, and help them, as occaſion ſhould cffer ir ſelf; and TROSS . j 4 18: 3: partly by divine Inſtigation, and in deſign, that he mighr give ſome 2349 And it cime to paſs in proceſs of time 4d, * Hev:114 manifeftation to them that he was raiſed, and ſent of God ro deliver that the king of Egypc e died, and the children of 13, 14 them ; as may be gathered from As 7. 25. IHrael * thghed | | Urael * ſighed F by reaſon of che bondage, and they «yum 12 And he looked this way and that way o, and cried, and their cry came up unto God, by reafon of 45: 16: : when he ſaw that there was no man, he flew che Egyp- the bondage. 2 tian p, and hid him in the ſand. d Heb. In thoſe many days, viz. in which he lived or abode there, + Nor from Conſcience of Guilt in- whet he lanended; hee afrer them. 7 is put for after here, as it is Numb: 28: 26: Iſat: humane and warrantable Prudence. p This Afton of Moſes was ex* 20: 1. Mark 13: 24: compared with Marth: 24: 29: Like g: 36 After traordinary, and is not to be juſtified by the common right of de- 40 years, as appears by comparing Exoaus 7: 7: with Affs 7: 30. fending the oppreſſed, which belongs not ro private perlons, Rom: | * And after Tan ane'en CE of his Sorls or Sycoalibes, 200506 and D, but only by his divine and ipecial Vccation to be the Ruler reſt who ſought for Myzs his Lite, Exod:4:19. f Becauſe though their and Deliverer of Iſrael. Which call of his, howſoever manifeſted, | 3**** ®PP reflor was dead, yet they found no rele, as they hoped-ro WE his agen, as Joſephus ſaith, or immediately ro himſelf, _ ident to 7 - . malls 5 oridans gh oo CER and he gave this as a ſignal to , wr Neves yo heard mm yt Rh 5 and God remem- W | red his ovenant with Abrah: Brxgns Koh, And _ he woes out the ſecond day q, behold, | with Jacob. ham, WH OS *Gen: x5 o men of t : = bong Argon _ ebrews ſtrove together: And he ſaid | 25 And God looked upon the children of Iſrael, and 465: 4. | Oe e wrong, Wherefore ſmiteſt thou thy | God Þ * had reſpe&t unto 1hemr fe t Heb. | The ne Oc Rþ f Heb. Knew them, ſo as to pity and help them; as words of new. = Fa. + Aer-oageb Ay _ ow — he refurns to execute — -— _ uſed, as Plot $ and 31.7, He wio ſeemed to Chap. | 1 et him as a Judzz:, whoſe work 1t 1 ave rejetted them, now owned them for his People, and came ti | both to deſtroy Enemies, and to reconcile f ix alc Y their reicue, : "RT PT ITE