Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 4:37

37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Keeping his eye fixed upon him, as the Father doth on his beloved child. Or, with his presence. i. e. He did not send them forth by Moses, but he himself was present with them, and as it were marched along with them, in the pillar of cloud and fire.