“And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.”
And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her: don't despair, for you have another son. The midwife's words — you have another son — are the answer to Rachel's prayer of Genesis 30:24: may the LORD add to me another son. The prayer is answered in the moment of the greatest suffering. The application: the answer to a prayer for addition can arrive in a moment of subtraction — the son added, the mother taken.
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