John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 50:9

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up, etc.] By sending a strong east wind, which drove the waters back, and made the sea a dry land, (<021421>Exodus 14:21). So he led them through the depths; that is, the deep waters of the sea, which were cast up as an heap, and stood as a wall on each side, through which they passed. As through the wilderness; or rather, “as on a plain”; for a passage through a wilderness where no roads are, and many obstructions be, is not easy; and so it is manifestly to be understood in (<236313>Isaiah 63:13), where Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it a plain and smooth ground, a champaign country; and so the word is used for a plain, in opposition to mountains, in (<240910>Jeremiah 9:10), and then the sense is, that God led them through the sea, being dried up, as if they were led through a plain and open country, where was nothing to obstruct their march; an emblem of baptism, (<461001>1 Corinthians 10:1,2), and of the passage of the people of God through this world; (see Gill on “<197813>Psalm 78:13”).

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