Exodus 1:8-17

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 1:12

What a blessed evidence this is of God's love to his people. And depend upon it, it is the same now! Every persecution, every scoff, every sneer of the infidel shall be blessed. And there is not a pain, or sickness, or sorrow, but what Jesus shall convert into a joy. Psalms 105:24 ; Romans 8:28 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 1:13

Proverbs 27:4 read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 1:14

It is sweet to trace God's hand in our afflictions. That is a strong expression: Psalms 105:25 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 1:15

Reader! This subject considered spiritually is very interesting. The enemy would destroy as soon as born everyone of the spiritual seed of Christ, as Herod thought to have done Christ himself. Matthew 2:16 ; Revelation 12:4-5 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 1:16-17

Is it not a mark of grace in these women? Proverbs 1:7 . And was it not similar to the faith of Rahab? Hebrews 11:31 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:9

Numerous. Calvisius observes, that from Ephraim alone might have sprung 4,112,323,729 people. See St. Augustine, q. 43, &c. (Haydock) --- In the space of 215 years, 70 people may produce an immense multitude, as Bonfrere shews by an accurate calculation. God also was pleased to bless the Hebrews with fecundity, so that they sprung up ( ebullierunt ) like frogs or fishes, ver. 7. In Egypt, the women had sometimes seven at a birth (Pliny, Natural History vii. 3,) and Aristotle (Anim. vii.... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:11

Masters . Cruel like himself, who not only made them build without proper materials, (ver. 14, and chap. v. 10, Haydock,) but oppressed them with heavy burdens of brick and tile. Hence Aristophanes calls the Hebrews in derision Plinthophoroi. This servitude is styled the iron furnace of Egypt, Deuteronomy iv. 20; Jeremias xi. 4. --- Of tabernacles, or of storehouses. (Challoner) --- To keep his treasures, Chaldean, or "fortresses," Septuagint. It may also be the name of a city, Miscenoth,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:14

Service. They were forced to till the land, reap, &c. (Menochius) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:15

Midwives. Egyptian women, who assisted all of that district. (Josephus, [Antiquities] xi. 5.) There were others under them. Some think all these midwives were of Hebrew extraction, as their names are Hebrew, &c. (Calmet) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:16

The time, &c. Hebrew, "and you shall see them upon the two stones." Abenaim. Jeremias (xviii. 3,) uses the same expression, speaking of a potter hard at work. (Calmet) --- A woman, from whom nothing could be feared, to be reserved for service and for pleasure. (Menochius) --- We must not obey princes in their unjust commands. (Acts iv. and v., and Matthew x. 28.) (Worthington) read more

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