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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Exodus 14:29

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Exodus 14:29 (WEB)

But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Gregory the Great

Augustine of Hippo

Ambrose of Milan

  • “Thou who hadst lost what was thine, didst obtain that which was another’s, being freed from the enemies who were hedging thee in, and safe in the midst of the waters thou sawest the destruction of thine enemies, when the same waves which surrounded and carried thee on thy way, pouring back, drowned the enemy.” — editor's note: Exod. xiv. 29.

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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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