At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
24. And it came to pass, that, in the morning-watch. In the morning the angel began to look upon the Egyptians, not that they had escaped his sight before; but for the purpose of destroying them by sudden submersion, though he had seemed previously to forget them, when hidden by the cloud. La nuit. — Fr.
Lord looked . . . through . . . the cloud, and troubled them--We suppose the fact to have been that the side of the pillar of cloud towards the Egyptians was suddenly, and for a few moments, illuminated with a blaze of light, which, coming as it were in a refulgent flash upon the dense darkness which had preceded, so frightened the horses of...
God can break through the greatest difficulties and force a way where none exists. The Almighty is not bound by nature's laws; when He pleases, fire will not burn and water will not flow. This sea divided before Israel is a mirror of His power and His faithfulness to His people.
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Commenting on Exodus 14:21-31