Exodus 14:22 (WEB)
The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Fathers and councils · 10
Ambrose of Milan
“Fire became as dew to the Hebrew children, the water stood up for the Jews, of Thy mercy, not of its own nature.” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 22.
Read the whole comment“…and at the same time surrounded one people, and poured back upon the other for their death, that they might overwhelm the one, but preserve the other.” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 22 ff.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Let each Christian conscience recognise itself, if it have devoutly passed the Red Sea, if with faith in believing and observing it hath heard a strange language which it knew not, let it recognise itself as having been heard in its tribulation.” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 22; 1 Cor. x. 2.
Read the whole comment“…there is no profit:” if the heathen forsook their idols, to come to the God of Israel; ought Israel whom their own God led from Egypt through the Red Sea, wherein He overwhelmed their pursuing foes; whom He led out into the wilderness, fed with manna, never took His rod from correcting them, never deprived them…” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“This people of God, freed from a great and broad Egypt, is led, as through the Red Sea, that in Baptism it may make an end of its enemies.” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 22.
Read the whole comment“For ye know, brethren, that the people of Israel passed through the water, by which the Egyptians were overwhelmed.” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 22–29.
Read the whole comment“The sea was divided; a way was made in the midst of the waves; their enemies following, were covered by the same waves through which they passed: and yet when Moses, the man of God, had departed from their sight, they asked for an idol, and said, “Make us gods to go before us; for this man has deserted us.”” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 21–31.
Read the whole comment“For who else save Moses smote the Egyptians with so many and mighty plagues, as when He led the people through the parted waters of the sea, when he obtained manna for them from heaven in their hunger, and water from the rock in their thirst?” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 21–29.
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Tertullian
“…after so many warning plagues, perish in the parted sea, (which was permitted to be passable to “the People” alone,) by the backward roll of the waves: for repentance and her handmaid exomologesis he had cast away.” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 15–31.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…burned but was not consumed, or rather by Him who appeared in the bush, and was encouraged by that first wonder: Moses, I say, for whom the sea was divided, and manna rained down, and the rock poured out a fountain, and the pillar of fire and cloud led the way in turn, and the stretching out of his hands gained a…” — editor's note: Ib. xiv. 22.
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