And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
2. And when she saw that he was a goodly child. There is no doubt but that God had adorned him with this beauty, in order the more to influence his parents to preserve him; as it sometimes happens that, when God sees his people slow in the performance of their duty, he spurs on their inactivity by allurements; although it appears from the testimony...
This child was born at the very hour Pharaoh's cruelty reached its peak to murder Hebrew infants. What begins as the parents' deepest fear becomes their greatest joy. God prepares the deliverer in the shadow of the oppressor's rage.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 2:1-4
And the woman conceived, and bare a son,.... Which was not her first child, nor indeed her first son, for she had both Aaron and Miriam before this: this son, which was Moses, was born, as the Jews say (t), in the thirty seventh year after the death of Levi, A. M.