וַיִּ֤פֶן כֹּה֙ וָכֹ֔ה וַיַּ֖רְא כִּ֣י אֵ֣ין אִ֑ישׁ וַיַּךְ֙ אֶת־הַמִּצְרִ֔י וַֽיִּטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בַּחֽוֹל׃
I obejrzał się tu i tam, a widząc, że niema nikogo, zabił Micrejczyka i zagrzebał go w piasku.
Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis
[37] That the bad man sinks down into his own incoherent mind as he strives to avoid Him that is, we shall learn from Moses who “smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand” (Exod. 2:12). This means that he took full account of the man who maintains that the things of the body have the pre-eminence and holds the things of the soul to be naught, and regards pleasures as the end and aim of life.
Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis
Exod. 2:12. Evil of being buried in our own loose mind (37).
On Flight and Finding
[148] The first of these he made against the Egyptian character, which was assailing the soul from the vantage-ground of pleasure; for “after smiting him he covered him with sand” (Exod. 2:12), a drifting, disconnected substance. He evidently regarded both doctrines as having the same author, the doctrine that pleasure is the prime and greatest good, and the doctrine that atoms are the elementary principles of the universe. Another attack (ibid. 13) was directed against him who splits up the nature of good into subdivisions, and assigns one to soul, one to body, one to things outside us. For he would have the good to be a complete whole, apportioned to the best element in us, to understanding alone, and in agreement with nothing lifeless.