forth from Paradise, carries down into the Gihon. Thence the
treasures float into the Red Sea, and by its waters they were tossed
into the chariots of the Egyptians. It was the wish of Israel, and for
this reason He caused the chariots to roll down into the sea, and
the sea in turn to cast them out upon the opposite shore, at the feet
of the Israelites. [48]

And the Lord fought against the Egyptians also with the pillar of
cloud and the pillar of fire. The former made the soil miry, and the
mire was heated to the boiling point by the latter, so that the hoofs
of the horses dropped from their feet, and they could not budge
from the spot. [49]

The anguish and the torture that God brought upon the Egyptians
at the Red Sea caused them by far more excruciating pain than the
plagues they had endured in Egypt, for at the sea He delivered
them into the hands of the Angels of Destruction, who tormented
them pitilessly. Had God not endowed the Egyptians with a double
portion of strength, they could not have stood the pain a single
moment. [50]

The last judgement executed upon the Egyptians corresponded to
the wicked designs harbored against Israel by the three different
parties among them when they set out in pursuit of their liberated
slaves. The first party had said, "We will bring Israel back to
Egypt;" the second had said, "We will strip them bare," and the
third had said, "We will slay them all." The Lord blew upon the
first with His breath, and the sea covered them; the second party
He shook into the sea, and the third He pitched into the depths of
the abyss. [51] He tossed them about as lentils are shaken up and