her sonne] Hebrews 11:24. By adoption, or free choyce, not by humane conception: haply she had none of her owne, or if she had, she had none so beautifull as he: But as freely as he was chosen (in his infancie) so he freely refused that relation, and all the credite and comfort that belonged to it; when he came to maturitie in manhood, but especially in grace: for then he chose, to be a fellow in affliction (with his brethren) rather then to have no fellow in Court favour, and honour; and yet he lost no honour by his change: for afterward, he grew mightie in words, and in deeds, Acts 7:22. prevalent in discourse, and counsell, and powerfull in many great and miraculous operations. his name Moses, Because] Joseph. Antiq. lib. 2. cap. 5. (and many from him) conceive the word to be a compound (in the Egyptian Tongue) of Mo water, and yses saved: but the word is rather to be thought an Hebrew word, called Mosheh, derived from Mascha signifying, hath taken out, or drawne out: because he was drawne out of the water: and in that sense, that is, as signifying, not simply drawne out, but drawne out of the water; it is used, 2 Samuel 22:17. &Psalms 18:16. and in those two places onely is that word found in Scripture. But what ever the name was in the Egyptian, Moses rendred in the Hebrew Tongue: And it is like his parents gave him a name before at his birth or circumcision, though what it was is not set down, but this name was put upon him as a memoriall both of his danger and deliverance: wherein if there were a concurrence in sound and sense, both of the Egyptian and Hebrew Tongue, it was the more usefull to such a purpose.