And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Moses renounced the court's splendor and wealth with full knowledge of the suffering ahead because he was prepared by hope for future recompense to bear the cross. His duty here was not to judge, but to make peace as charity demands, moderately reproving the wrongdoer, for silence when justice is violated is itself a kind of consent.
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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
The aggressor strikes his fellow Hebrew with unnatural cruelty, especially vile when brethren ought to live in love together, and doubly so when enemies already oppress them from without. Moses asks why he smites his own companion, signifying how unbecoming and unkind such strife is among the afflicted.
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