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God's Sovereign Command
Commentators emphasize that the sea returned not by chance, but by a direct command from God to Moses. The same authority that parted the waters now commanded them to close. As John Calvin notes, the sea 'had no less obeyed God’s command' in destroying the Egyptians than it did in saving the Israelites, demonstrating God's absolute control over creation for both salvation and judgment.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 14:26
18th Century
Theologian
That the waters may come - A sudden cessation of the wind, possibly coinciding with a spring tide (it was full moon), would immediately conv…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 14:23–28
19th Century
Bishop
The Egyptians pursued. — All the Israelites having entered the bed of the sea, the pillar of the cloud, it would seem, withdrew af…
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 14:26–31
19th Century
Preacher
And well they might! Yet how soon they murmured both against the Lord and against Moses!
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John Calvin
On Exodus 14:26
16th Century
Theologian
And the Lord said to Moses. Moses here relates how the sea, in destroying the Egyptians, had no less obeyed God’s command than when it rec…
John Gill
On Exodus 14:26
17th Century
Pastor
And the Lord said to Moses
Out of the pillar of fire and of the cloud, when the Egyptians were in all the confusion …
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 14:21–31
17th Century
Minister
The dividing of the Red Sea was the terror of the Canaanites (Joshua 2:9); the praise and triumph of the Israelites ([Reference Psalms …