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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Exodus 14:28

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Exodus 14:28 (WEB)

The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

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Augustine of Hippo

Tertullian

  • “First, indeed, when the people, set unconditionally free, escaped the violence of the Egyptian king by crossing over through water, it was water that extinguished the king himself, with his entire forces.” — editor's note: Ex. xiv. 27–30.

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  • “…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

  • “The wilderness shall be tamed for thee, and the Sea divided; Pharaoh shall be drowned; bread shall be rained down: the rock shall become a fountain; Amalek shall be conquered, not with arms alone, but with the hostile hand of the righteous…” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 28.

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