awe than the ruler of the superpower of their day, and they so trusted him to keep to his plans that they were prepared to defy those of Pharaoh. The seventeenth-century Puritan William Gurnall put it well when he wrote, “We fear men so much because we fear God so little”. These midwives are an example of how we can act with courage when we trust in the promise of God, which Paul describes in Galatians 3:8 as the gospel announced in advance. The midwives are rewarded with children, a sign of having