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14 The LORD f(kall fight for you, and ye ſhall hold your peace r.
r (7.e.) Ye ſhall contribute nothing to the Viftory, neither by your words, nor by your deeds ; for this Hebrew word ſfgnifies a Deflation not only from Speech,but from Aion too, as 2 Sam: 19: 11: Pſal: 83: 1: Iſa: 42: 14, 15. Or rather, do you hold your peace,the uture Tenſe for the Imperative, as it is very frequent ;« ceaſe your Murmuring againſt the Lord and me. |
I5 YT And the LORD faid unto Moſes; Wherefore cryeſt thou unto me s ?. Speak unto the children of IC- rael, that they go forward. ; s By fervent, though ſecret Prayer ; for which he doth not re« prove him, but only bids him turn his Prayer into Aion, Com- pare Joſ. 7. 10, 13.
16 But lift chou up thy rod, and. ſtretch out thine hand over the ſea,anddivide it ?t : and the children of If. -ael ſhall go on dry ground through the midft of the ſea.
z ( 7. e. ) Do thou command it in my Name to divide it ſelfhi. ther and thither, and-I will divideit.
17 And1, behold, I wiil harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they ſhall follow them : and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upen all his hoſt, upon
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18 And the Egyptians ſhall know that T am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon hjs horſemen.
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camp of Iſrael, removed and went behind them @; and 73: 21: che piliar of the cloud went from before their fac
e,and {ſtood behind them. ; Not changing his place, for he was the Omnipreſent God, wer. 15, but his operation, from leading the J1{-azlites forward in their way tothe proteCting of them from their Purſuers.
20 Anditcame between the camp of the Egyptians,
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21 And Moſes ſtretched out his hand over the Sea,
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c Fo. LORD 4 looked e unto the hoſt of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,and troubled
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© The night was anciently divided, not by hours, as now it 15, bur by warches, which ſometimes were accounted four, and ſome- times but three ; howſoever the laſt ofthem was calVed the morning- watch. Then when they hoped for moſt advantage in the purſuar, they met with their greateſt diſaſter. d Called the 4»g2! of God,v.19: By which promiſcuous uſe of theſe Titles it ſufficiently appears,that this was no ordinary Angel, but the Son of God. e With an eye of indignation and vengeance, as that phraſe 1s uſed, Job 497 12. See alſo mos ©: 4. f With moſt terrible and prodigious Winds, and Rains, and Lightnings, and both claps and bolrs of Thunder, as may be gathered from Exod: 15. 10. Pſal: 77. 18, 19. and as ſome an- cient Hiſtorians relate, with terrours alſo in their minds, ©.
25 And took off their chariot-wheels g, + that they drave them heavilie þ : ſo that the Egyprians ſaid, Ler us flee from the face of Iſrael : for the LORD fighteth
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g Either burning them with Lightning,or tearing them in pieces with Thunder-bolts,or looſening them,and making them to fall oit. þ Heb. and he made him, or them, the ſingular number for the plu- ral, 7. e. The Egyptians, or their Chariots, to go heavily, hardly and flowly, either for want of Wheels, or for breaches in them, or be- cauſe the Rain had ſoftened the bottom. of the Sea, or becauſe the Lightnings and Thunders affrighted and diſpirired their Horſes. 7 Prodigious ſtupidity ! They did not underſtand and conſider this, though it was notorious,to them eſpecially,by many great and freſh inſtances, till it was too late to prevent it : therein being a Type of moſt Sinners, who will not be convinced, nor repent, till they be
aſt all benefit by it. Y 26 And the LORD ſaid unto Moſes, Stretch gut
thine hand over the ſea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians 3 upon their chariots, aiid upon their horſemen.
27 And Moſes ſtretched forth his hand over the ſea,
+ Or,nade them to go heavily,
and the ſea returned to his ſtrengch & when the morn-
ing appeared : and the Egyptians fled againlt it /: and the LORD + overthrew the Egyptians in the midſt of
ſwok of. the ſea. be Deut: 11: | Tg jt's natural and ordinary courſe, and motion, which is ſwift + and ſtrong,which it had been hitherto reſtrained by a ſtronger hand, and rendered in a manner impotent and weak. But now, Sampſon- like, when its bonds are broken,it puts forth its former and natural ſtrength. But indeed this word may belong to the morning,and fo a learned man tranſlates the place,and that very agreeably to the uſe and order ofthe Hebrew words, the Sea returned, to.,wit, to its courſe, ' when the morning appeared according to, or in his ſtrength, 1. e. when it was full and clear morning ; as we off read of the ſtrength of the day. See Gen: 7: 13. Job 21: 23. So the ſtrength of the morning is here op- poſed' to the morning-watch. / Againſt the Sea, for which way
ſoever they fled,the waters met them, and fought againſt them.
28 And the * waters returned, and covered the cha-
riots, and the horſemen, and all the hoſt of Pharaoh that came into the ſea' after them m2 : there remained