Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:23

23 By faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child, and they were not afraid of the kings commandment.

The Parents of Moses were as eminent in this Faith as their Progenitors; for by it Amram and Iochebed both of them of the Tribe of Levi, Exod. 6.20. [non-Latin text not transcribed] here put by a Metaphrase for [non-Latin text not transcribed], and tho in the History ascribed to the Mother only, yet it was by the Father's direction, as Exod. 2.2. comp. Acts 7.20. They hid Moses born, under the bloody Edict of a Tyrant for drowning all the Hebrew-males in Nile: he was born three years after Aaron, and 65 after Ioseph's Death, they kept three Months from the Destroyers, and they adventured the Penalties threatned by the Edict, Exod. 2.2, 3. Faith overcoming their Fears and Difficulties about it, and in all Probability, ordered their fitting the Ark, and dispose of it for his Preservation with the other Acts attending it.

The Reason of Faith's Work, was their seeing of him to be [non-Latin text not transcribed], fair, beautiful, proper; and this not in himself only, but as Stephen interpre[illegible: 1 letter]s it, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Acts 7.20. Fair to God. Some glorious Aspect was by God put upon him as a Signal of some great Person, and of great use in God's Design to his Church; some extraordinary Stamp of God on his Countenance, which Faith could discern there, and so influence them to conceal and preserve him.

Faith made them fearless; for they were not afraid that the King's Edict should frustrate Gods Purpose concerning the Child, or keep him from its Service to the Church, wherein God would imploy him, and of which he had given them a Signal in that lustre cast on his Person, and therefore they used means to preserve him, even when they exposed him, and which had a suitable success, Exod. 2.3, to 10.

Marginal references: Exod. 1.16, 22.