Wesley Corpus

The perils of his birth and infancy, ver. 1 - 4. His preservation through those perils, and the preferment of his childhood and youth, ver. 5 - 10. The pious choice of his riper years, which was to own the people of God, He offered them his service, so they would have accepted it, ver. 11 - 14. He retired, that he might reserve himself for farther service, ver. 15 - 22. The dawning of the day of Israel's deliverance, ver. 23 - 25. And there went a man - Amram, from the place of his abode to another place. A daughter - That is, grand - daughter of Levi. Bare a son - It seems just at the time of his birth that cruel law was made for the murder of all the male - children of the Hebrews, and many no doubt perished by the execution of it. Moses's parents had Miriam and Aaron, both elder than he, born to them before that edict came out. Probably his mother had little joy of her being with child of him, now this edict was in force. Yet this child proves the glory of his father's house. Observe the beauty of providence: just when Pharaoh's cruelty rose to this height, the deliverer was born. She hid him three months - In some private apartment of their own house, though probably with the hazard of their lives had he been discovered. It is said, Heb 11:23. That Moses's parents hid him by faith: some think they had a special revelation that the deliverer should spring from their loins; however, they believed the general promise of Israel's preservation, and in that faith hid their child. And when she could no longer hide him, she put him in an ark of bulrushes - By the river side. God put it into their hearts to do this, to bring about his own purposes: that Moses might by this means be brought into the hands of Pharaoh's daughter, and that by his deliverance, a specimen might be given of the deliverance of God's church. And the daughter of Pharaoh came - Providence brings no less a person than Pharaoh's daughter just at that juncture, guides her to the place where this poor infant lay, inclines her heart to pity it, which she dares do, when none else durst.