VVHen Israel was a childe] Or, Because Israel was a childe. In it first begining, namly when it first began to be a nation in Egypt. See Jeremiah 2:2. Ezekiel 16:22. Also it is true of Christ, who when he was a childe fled thither from Herod, and came thence to Judea, where by his death he delivered his people from the bondage of sinne, figured by that Egyptian bondage: this exposition the Evangelist maketh, Matthew 2:15. called my sonne ut of Egypt] Matth 2. 15 Exodus 4:22-23.