Ambrose of Milan, on Exod 2:12

“And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.”

“Moses indeed killed the Egyptian and became a fugitive from the land of Egypt, in order to avoid the tyrant of that land. But he would not have killed that Egyptian man before he had first killed the Egyptian man of spiritual wickedness within himself, and had renounced the luxury of regal honors, considering the reproach of Christ a greater inheritance than the treasures of Egypt.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.