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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:1

CONTENTS This Chapter is rendered remarkable in that it is the beginning of the history of Moses, the writer of the Book of Exodus, and one of the most illustrious types of the Lord Jesus, as the great deliverer and lawgiver of his people; and as a mediator. The Contents of this Chapter are, the birth of Moses: his immediate danger at his birth, in being exposed to perish for want of sustenance, or from the ravages of destruction on the banks of the Nile: his preservation by Pharaoh's daughter... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:2

I would have the Reader remark concerning the fairness of Moses: that though Moses had this outward attraction to recommend him: yet of Jesus, the Son of God, it is said, he had no form nor comeliness; and when we should see him, there was no beauty that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2 . The law appears at first to every carnal man as Moses did, lovely. The Gospel to all such hath nothing like its Divine Author to recommend it. But when we see spiritually and not bodily, it is the law that... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:3-4

Who that beholds the exposure of Moses, but must immediately call to mind the similar situation of the Lord Jesus. See Matthew 2:13 read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:5

Observe the gracious interposition of God. Moses shall not only be preserved in the moment of danger, but preserved by the very daughter of the man who sought his life. Psalms 107:43 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:6

Reader! while you admire and adore the goodness of God, in thus forming our nature with those unconscious pleas for mercy which fail not to operate upon all minds, more or less: do not forget what the Lord saith of his own free and spontaneous mercy, as manifested to our whole nature, when we were cast out to perish, and when no eye pitied us but his, in our lost estate. Ezekiel 16:5-6 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:7-8

Who doth not, or will not, see divine wisdom arranging all this to his glory, and the mother's joy? But is there not also a gracious, as well as a providential lesson read to us here? Is not the unexpected blessing of receiving her child back again in this way by Moses' mother, a figure of the unexpected recovery of every lost sinner, whom divine mercy hath watched over during the season of unregeneracy, and at length restored in the day of God's power. See Luke 15:32 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:9

I think this verse may be spiritualized. Jesus doth in effect say the same concerning his children to all his ministering servants. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 2:10

Moses means, drawn out of the water. An Egyptian name. And this I think is very gratifying to the Gentile church; see Isaiah 19:25 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:1

After this. In process of time, without reference to what immediately precedes. The Hebrew and Septuagint omit these words. (Haydock) --- The marriage of Amram, grandson of Levi, with his aunt or cousin, had taken place before the persecution. Tostat and others suppose, that people were not then forbidden to marry their aunts. But it is probable Jochabed was only the grand-daughter of Levi, and the daughter of one of Amram's brothers, as the Septuagint insinuate. Otherwise their ages would have... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:2

Goodly. Handsome, elegant, Hebrews xi. 23; agreeable to God, Acts vii. 20. Josephus says, Amram had been assured by God that the child should be the deliverer of his people. Yet he neglects not to use every prudent precaution. (Worthington) --- Months. Hebrew moons; whence some erroneously infer, that the Hebrew year was not solar. (Calmet) read more

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