BY FAITH HE LEFT EGYPT NOT FEARING THE WRATH OF THE KING: Pistei katelipen (3SAAI) Aigupton mê phobêtheis (APPMSN) ton thumon tou basileos: (Exodus 10:28,29; 11:8; 12:11,37-42; 13:17-21) (Exodus 2:14,15; 4:19; 14:10-13)

He ACTIVELY abandoned, forsook (stronger than just ''to leave''). Used in LXX of Joseph fleeing in Ge 39:12, 13 when he even ''left his garment''. That is a picture of the way we should leave the world...leave our garments! Get out, not looking back like Lot's wife. (1Co6:18, Jude23). Although we are to have the lifestyle or be continually fleeing youthful lusts (2T i2:22 - pheugo -- present tense) the Aorist emphasizes that each point in time when TEMPTATION rises up (like Potiphar's wife) ...PUNCTILIAR...each time be like the Nike commercial says and ''JUST DO IT!" Don't argue. Leave Egypt.

Moses did flee from Egypt after slaying the Egyptian Ex2:15 but the author omits that slaughter and ignores it as the dominant motive in the flight of Moses.

FOR HE ENDURED AS SEEING HIM WHO IS UNSEEN (Mt5:8 Heb12:14 Ps11:7):ton gar aoraton os oron (PAPMSN) ekarteresen (3SAAI): (6:15; 10:32; 12:3; Matthew 10:22; 24:13; Mark 4:17; 13:13; 1 Corinthians 13:7; James 5:11) (1,13; 12:2; Psalms 16:8; Acts 2:25; 2 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Timothy 1:17; 6:16; 1 Peter 1:8)

From "kratos" so to be strong, steadfast, holding out even in the face of impending doom as Pharoah's army thundered toward Moses and the children Ex4:13 (""Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today;" Now that is "kartereo"!) Job2:9,("Do you still hold fast your integrity?") Isa42:14