And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that [there was] no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Ver. 12. He slew the Egyptian.] This deed of his was heroic and extraordinary, and therefore not to be imitated by every Birchet, who, by this example of Moses and that other of Ehud, persuaded himself it was lawful to kill such as oppose the truth of the gospel: whereupon he wounded Hawkins, slew his keeper, and thought he had a calling to kill a great personage in this kingdom, whom he took to be God's enemy. The like madness is reported of the Monasterian Anabaptists. a
a Camden's Elisab., fol. 174. Mr Bayly's Dissuas., part 2.