But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Ver. 17. And did not as the king, &c.] Wherein they did no more, though out of a better principle, than nature itself dictateth. Antigona saith thus in Sophocles, Magis obtemperandum est Diis apud quos diutius manendum erit, quam hominibus quibuscum admodum brevi tempore vivendum est. See Trapp on " Act 4:19 " "We must rather obey God than men."