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4.Pharaoh’ chariots. Moses in these words only meant to assert, that the drowning of Pharaoh was manifestly God’ work. Therefore, he now illustrates in more glowing terms the transaction which he had before simply narrated; as also when he compares the Egyptians to stones and lead, as if he had said that they were hurled by God’ mighty hand into the deep, so that they had no power to swim out. On this score, he repeats twice the mention of God’ “ hand;” as much as to say that such a miracle could not be ascribed either to fortune or to the efforts of man. We must take notice of what he soon after says, that the Egyptians “ up against” God; because they had treated His people with injustice and cruelty. Thence we gather, that God’ majesty is violated by the wicked, whenever His Church, whose safety He has undertaken to preserve by His faithful patronage, is assailed by them. “ sentest forth thy wrath,” and “ the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together,” are to be read in conjunction; for their meaning is that God, without any instrumentality, but by His simple volition, and in manifestation of His wrath, had brought the enemy to. destruction.