Exodus 1:16
Douay-Rheims
Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
Methodius of Olympus
Thus too it has been said that the Pharaoh of Egypt was a type of the devil, in that he cruelly ordered the males to be cast into the Nile and permitted the females to live. So too the devil, ruling over the great Egypt of the world "from Adam unto Moses," made an effort to carry off and destroy the male and rational offspring of the soul in the flood of the passions, while he takes delight in seeing the carnal and sensual offspring increase and multiply.
Source details
A.D. 311 · on Exod 1:16 (BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 4.2)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.