The language in which Andrew announced to Simon his great fortune was simple, but, in Jewish lips, most pregnant.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
They are merely midwives who assist in bringing to the birth a future with which society is already pregnant.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The cause was not political, or even national, but social; and society-which was indeed already pregnant with the change-must be aroused to a conscious consent to the delivery.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae