Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 2:11

11 And it came to pass in those dayes , when Moses was grown , that he went out unto his brethren , and looked on their burdens, and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Whilest Moses lived at court, and was owned as the son of Pharaohs daughter, and, as some write, designed to succeed Pharaoh in the Throne.

To maturity, being 40 years old, Act. 7. 23.

Partly by natural affection and inclination, that he might learn the state of his brethren, and help them, as occasion should offer it self; and partly by divine instigation, and in design, that he might give some manifestation to them that he was raised and sent of God to deliver them, as may be gathered from Act. 7. 25.