How great was the fear of the woman who was in danger of losing her baby, or of watching him be slain? Yet her motherly instincts are her salvation and her baby’s salvation. The Hebrew word for “compassion” is actually the plural of the word for the womb. Compassion is the feeling a mother has for the child of her womb. The real mother’s compassion saved her child. Like many a great insight, Solomon’s solution to the problem is obvious as soon as he has enunciated it, yet it is a stroke of genius.