As she came unto him, or, as she went, to wit, from her father's house to her husband s, as the manner was: See Poole on "Matthew 1:18". She moved him to ask; she persuaded her husband; either,
1. That he would ask; or rather,
2. That he would suffer her to ask, as she did. She lighted off her ass, that she might address herself to her father in a humble posture, and as a suppliant, which he understood by her gesture.