the children: Exo 14:29, Exo 15:19; Num 33:8; Psa 66:6, Psa 78:13; Isa 63:13; 1Co 10:1; Heb 11:29
and the waters: This verse demonstrates that this event was wholly miraculous, and cannot be ascribed, as some have supposed, to an extraordinary ebb, which happened just then to be produced by a strong east wind. For this would not have caused the waters, contrary to every law of fluids, to stand as a wall on the right hand and the left.