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A49909	Twelve dissertations out of Monsieur Le Clerk's Genesis ... done out of Latin by Mr. Brown ; to which is added, a dissertation concerning the Israelites passage through the Red Sea, by another hand.	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.; Brown, Mr.; Another hand.	1696 (1696)	Wing L828; ESTC R16733	184,316	356

Heathens not only those of the Hebrews nothing hinders but he might sometimes designedly help Natural Causes on their behalf VII It appears also from the Death of the Egyptians that the Sea was divided as I have said First Moses says that when the Israelites went into the Sea The Egyptians pursued and went in after them in the Night-time to the midst of the Sea even all Pharaoh's Horses his Chariots and Horse-men Exod. 14.23 The Egyptians believed that the Israelites took hold of the Opportunity of an Ebbing which was greater than it used to be and that therefore they ought presently to pursue them least the Passage should be stopt by the return of the Waters Tho' the Egyptians were transported with anger yet had they suspected that it was a Prodigy they had certainly never been so mad as to go into the Channel of the Sea and they might have seen that it was undoubtedly a Miracle were it not that they might with some likelyhood ascribe the thing to an Extraordinary Reflux When the whole Army of the Egyptians came into the Sea and the Israelites got to the opposite Shore that is in the Third Watch of the Night as we learn from what follows Moses was commanded to smite the Sea which being done Exod. 14.27 The Sea return'd to its strength when the morning appear'd Which seems not to have happen'd by degrees but God made use of an extraordinary South-Wind which brought back with a great violence and in a very short time the Waves which stood still by the strength of the North-Wind This we learn from Moses's Song Exod. 15.10 Thou didst blow with thy Wind the Sea covered them They sank as lead in the mighty Waters c. If the Waters were congealed and heaped up on both sides what need was there of a Wind to make them return to their place As they stood up only by the Will of God they might return into their Channel by the same Will provided God would have recall'd the Efficacy of his Power for they had dropt down by their weight like melted Ice Lest the Egyptians should avoid by flying the violence of the Reflux besides the South-Wind by which it was hasten'd Moses says That God Troubled the Host of the Egyptians and took off their Chariot-wheels that they drave them heavily Exod. 14.24 25. That we may the better understand this we must remember that the Army of the Egyptians was made up only of Chariots and Horse-men For Pharaoh brought with him no Infantry to overtake more easily the Israelites nor did he want any seeing he might easily rout an unarm'd People only with his Chariots and Horse-men Besides the March of the Horse-men and Chariots was made slower by a secret Efficacy of the Divine Power Three things might make that Passage more difficult to the Egyptians than to the Israelites 1. There might be in some Places abundance of Mires too deep to drive Chariots and Horses thro' them without great trouble whereas Men a Foot might easily get over them especially the Israelites who were used to wander with their Flocks in the Marshes of Egypt Tho' the Bottom of the Sea is not the same every where yet no Body will wonder that I say there might be here and there some Miry Places in a Space that was some Miles Broad a little while after the Sea left it 2. If there were no Mires in some places there was abundance of deep Sand in which Wheels will sink deeply and thro' which Horses can go but slowly Diodorus Siculus says Book III. There is a vast quantity of Dirt and Sand in that Sea and that the Floods sometimes carry so much Sand about the Ships that Sail in it that they stick fast in the Ground That Sand hindered without doubt the Chariots and Horses from going fast If it be objected that Moses says several times that the Israelites went thro' the Sea as thro' a Dry Land I answer It ought not to be so understood as if the Channel of the Sea had not been so much as moist and dirty The Land is said to be Dry because there was no Waves upon it and it is opposed not to Moistness but to Water as Gen. 1.9 And God said let the Waters under the Heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the Dry Land appear and God called the Dry Land Earth See also Chap. 8.13 Philo therefore laid too great a stress upon that Word when he said that the Isrelites went thro' the Sea as thro' a way paved with Stones for as he goes on the Sand grew hard and made one solid Body Miracles have been often invented to explain some Words of Scripture upon which they put too literal a Sense of which the Holy Writers never so much as dream'd 3. The Bottom of the Sea being uneven and full of Rocks and † See Theophras Hist of Plants Book IV. ch 8. Shrubs could not give a Free passage to the Chariots Nay 't was almost impossible for those who drived the Chariots and hastened to pursue the Israelites in the Night time and then to make their escape to the Egyptian Shores not to encumber and hinder one another and even to overturn their Chariots and break the Wheels against the Rocks Now some Chariots overturned or broke were sufficient to disturb the whole Army and it could go but slowly whilst their Ranks were broke and every Horseman endeavoured to go faster then another This Moses seems to teach us in the words I have quoted All which things I have mentioned did without doubt hinder the march of the Horse and Chariots When the Israelites saw this besides they perhaps observed that the Wind was turned knowing that the Sea would presently flow in they began to think more seriously of making their escape Then at last they perceived that the God of the Israelites was not less Powerful in the Sea then he had been in Egypt So that condemning their rashness they turned back and made haste to the Egyptian Shoar but the Waves breaking upon them they were Drowned Josephus not only says that the Water of the Sea was driven on the Egyptians by the Wind but also that there arose at the same time a violent Storm which perhaps he learned from the Egyptian Priests of his time The Egyptians added that their Ancestors were forced to come home and leave off pursuing the Israelites by reason of the Storms as it appears from Justin Book 26. Ch. 2. But Moses says that they all Perished in the Sea and that not one of them escaped to bring the News of their Calamity From whence one may observe by the bye that Josephus omitted that part of the Tradition of the Egyptians because it was contrary to the History of Moses but willingly alledged according to his Custom that part which was not inconsistent with it VIII If the Histories of Manetho and of some others who wrote the Antiquities of the Egyptians were extant we might