Midwives
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Adversus Marcionem (Latin)
but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.
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Theaetetus
Women who assist in childbirth, whose practices Socrates uses as an extended analogy for his method of philosophical questioning.
So great, then, is the importance of midwives;
Just take into consideration the whole business of the midwives, and you will understand more easily what I mean.
Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregnant and who are not?
Adversus Marcionem
The Hebrew midwives in Egypt who protected infants from Pharaoh's edict, cited as an example of the Creator's love for little ones.
but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.