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Scenes from Scripture

The Red Sea

A pillar of fire by night, the sea standing up on either hand, and a way through it. Scroll to watch it.

But God went before them by day indeed in a pillar of cloud, to show them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.

Exodus 13:21, as St Cyprian of Carthage gives it

We will sing unto the Lord, for He is to be gloriously praised; the horse and his rider He hath cast into the sea.

Exodus 15:1, as St Athanasius of Alexandria gives it

Nothing else then the passing through the sea did signify, but the Sacrament of the baptized; nothing else the pursuing Egyptians, but the multitude of past sins. Ye see most evident mysteries. The Egyptians press, they urge; so then sins follow close, but no farther than to the water.

Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms LXXXI