The woman conceived] This was not her first child: for Aaron was Moses his brother, and elder then he, by 3. yeares, Chap. 7. 7. and their sister Miriam was born before them both, and Aaron and she, before the bloudy Edict was made by the King against the children of the Hebrews.
a goodly child] Acts 7:20. That is said here to be done by affection, which Hebrews 11:23. is attributed to faith: his parents trusted in Gods protection, for the preservation of their child, (notwithstanding the bloudy decree of Pharaoh) and their affection became serviceable to their faith, when it quickned them up to use all the good meanes they could to reprieve him from perill.