Exodus 2:15 (WEB)
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“That perhaps the early life of Moses was sinful; for he fled from Egypt, after slaying a man.” — editor's note: Exod. ii. 12–15.
Read the whole comment“Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet,” etc. Here, certainly, he speaks both of angel and of Lord; and of the same as the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; as is written in Genesis.” — editor's note: Ex. ii. 15 and iii. 7, and Acts vii. 29–33
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John Chrysostom
“And yet the Scripture says, that when he heard, he “was afraid” ( Ex. ii. 14 ), and for this cause provided for safety by flight, and stole away, and secretly withdrew himself; and afterwards he was exceedingly afraid.” — editor's note: See Ex. ii. 14, 15. St. Chrys. is speaking of Moses’ flight after killing the Egyptian.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Would you prefer the whole of the Canaanites to Abraham alone? or the men of Sodom to Lot? or the Midianites to Moses, when each of these was a pilgrim and a stranger?” — editor's note: Exod. ii. 15.
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Tertullian
“And as God is good, He so loves infants as to have blessed the midwives in Egypt, when they protected the infants of the Hebrews which were in peril from Pharaoh’s command.” — editor's note: Ex. ii. 15–21.
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