He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
12. And he looked this way and that way. Hence it more evidently appears that Moses came with the design of succouring his unhappy brethren, and of relieving and aiding them with his help, since, by killing the Egyptian, he avenged the injury done indeed to an individual, but having a bearing on the whole nation.
Moses won a glorious victory by faith when he refused to be called Pharaoh's daughter's son and chose to suffer with his brethren instead. He looked on their burdens as one resolved to venture with them, and if need arose, for them.
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Commenting on Exodus 2:11-15
And he looked this way, and that way,.... All around, to observe if there were any within sight who could see what he did; which did not arise from any consciousness of any evil he was about to commit, but for his own preservation, lest if seen he should be accused to Pharaoh, and suffer for it: and when he saw that there was no...