And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
Ver. 13. Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware,] sc., For her child's sake. And generally, that mother that would have a holy child, must herself be holy and temperate: for Partus sequitur ventrem, the birth usually followeth the belly, the child taketh after the mother.