[See WE 3271-73, explaining Exod. 2:6.] 3274. The daughter of the Pharaoh is said to have had compassion on the child, saying that this was one of the children of the Hebrews, because the "daughter of the Pharaoh" means the Church of the gentiles, which is loved by God the Messiah. Therefore, as she was acting in the same manner as God the Messiah Himself, from love and mercy, because such a feeling was inspired into her, she is said to have "had compassion," and this because the child had been exposed to death and placed at the river's bank. For the Church of the gentiles loves the Jewish Church, because from it they derived their knowledge of God the Messiah Himself. The gentiles are moved by love toward the Jews, but the Jews, on the other hand, are moved by hatred toward those they call gentiles, meaning Christians. How that Church declared its love toward the Jews is expressed by her words, "this is one of the children of the Hebrews," which she said despite the fact that the Hebrews were an abomination to the Egyptians, as we read above [Gen. 43:32]. She also bore witness to it by acts of love, in that she gave him to a nurse to be suckled [Exod. 2:7], and adopted him as her own son [verse 10]. They who are led by God the Messiah are like this, but just the opposite are those who are led by the devil. They have compassion for no one, and least of all for Christians, whom, if they had the power, they would condemn to death as they did Christ Himself, and would close the sepulcher with a great stone, meaning that they would cast them into the place symbolized by a sepulcher, and would stop up the sepulcher itself, rolling a great stone up to it [Matt. 27:66]. Such are the Jews, and such they have been since ancient times,