Behold, the babe wept— You have here an instance of the true sublime: nothing can be more concise, yet nothing more picturesque and pathetic. No wonder the heart of the princess was moved, and that the beauty of the child struck her with irresistible pity and love. She immediately, and naturally, concluded, that it was the child of some of those unfortunate Hebrews, who groaned under her father's heavy thraldom: her pity told her, that so lovely a babe deserved a better fate; and that it was her duty, since Providence had thus thrown him in her way, at any rate to save him from the common ruin.
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Exodus 2:6
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.