By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land : which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Ver. 29. They passed through the Red Sea] Which threatened to swallow them, but yet preserved them. Faith will eat its way through the Alps of seemingly insuperable difficulties, and find unexpected exits.
As by dry land] "Israel saw no way to escape here, unless they could have gone up to heaven, which because they could not, saith one, heaven comes down to them, and paves them away through the Red Sea.
Assaying to do were drowned] Here that holy proverb was exemplified, "The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead," Proverbs 11:8. See Isaiah 43:3. God usually infatuateth those whom he intendeth to destroy, as these.