By faith Moses, &c.— The instance of faith here, is that of Moses's parents. It is not improbable, that Moses's father knew what had been promised to Abraham, Genesis 13:16. Now reckon by the generations, and by the series of years passed from the covenant with Abraham, and it is plain that the time of servitude was then drawing toward its end. Moses's parents therefore, believing the promises made to Abraham, and seeing the infant a comely fine child, they concealed his birth, and did not make away with him, as Pharaoh had commanded. However, the sacred historyitself takes no notice of anyother reason for their preserving the child, but only his exceeding comeliness or fairness. See Acts 7:20.
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Hebrews 11:23
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.