Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 7:19 - 7:19

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 7:19 - 7:19


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Pharaoh resolves to deal (as he thought) wisely, Exo_1:10, and it is acknowledged that the Egyptians dealt subtilly with them, Psa_105:25. For they do not at once destroy them, which might have been hazardous, the Israelites being so numerous; neither could Egypt well spare at once so many inhabitants; (too great and sudden evacuations cause swoonings); but they endeavour their ruin by degrees:



1. Wasting them by hard labours.



2. Commanding the midwives privately to kill their males.



3. Casting out, or exposing, any whom they found spared.



Yet this people, attempted upon by so many secret and open means to bring them to destruction, God did preserve; and so he will his church, (which they did typify), maugre all the endeavours the most potent malice can use against it.