And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Ver. 16. She had hard labour.] Woman, of all creatures, bringeth forth with most pain and peril, as the philosopher a observeth, and experience confirmeth. Her only way is to send for Lady Faith, the best midwife; 1Ti 2:15 and thereby to repose upon him whose "voice causeth the hinds to calve," Psa 29:9 which yet, of all brute creatures, bring forth with greatest trouble, "bowing themselves," bruising their young, and "casting out their sorrows." Job 39:3-4
a Arist., De Anima., lib. vii.