And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born [him] a son in his old age.
Ver. 7. That Sarah should have given children suck.] So she had a double blessing, - of the womb, and of the breasts. Milk she had at those years, and great store of it too: whence she is said to "give children suck," not a child only. She could have nursed another for a need, besides her own. Note, that though she were a great lady, yet she was a nurse. Let it not be niceness, but necessity that hinders any mother from so doing; lest she be found more monstrous than the "sea-monsters," that "draw out their breast, and give suck to their young". Lam 4:3 If the child must be set out, let a fit nurse be looked after. Quidam scrofae lacte nutritus cum esset, in coeno sese identidem volutabat. a
a Sphinz Philosoph., p. 235.