nativitie in the day thou was born] Hosea 2:3. An Allegorie continued in all this Chapter: wherein the peoples estate temporall and spirituall is represented by a wretched maide, married, exalted, and enriched through meer grace: when I called Abraham, of whom thou wast born, from Ur of the Chaldees, his father Terah was an idolater, Joshua 24:2. If the peoples birth be referred to the time when it came to some forme and perfection of a Nation, and was brought from Egypt, the multitude of Israel forsook not the idols of Egypt, Ezekiel 20:8. thy navel was not cut] Termes taken from that which useth to be done to little children newly born, to shew that the people had no humane help nor assistance, but were utterly forsaken in their miserie. to supple thee] Or, when I looked upon thee. thou wast not salted at all] Salt being used about these little creatures, to bathe and rub them, to drie up, cleanse and strengthen the body of the childe.