Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Ver. 3. Now the Egyptains are men, and not God.] Poets fain that in the Trojan war one god fought against another.
“ Mulciber in Troiam, pro Troia stabat Apollo. ”
But the Jews could not imagine that these Egyptians, in whom they confided, were fit matches for God, and able to deal with him. "Who would set those briers and thorns against me in battle I would go through them, I would burn them together." Isa 27:4
And their horses flesh, and not spirit.] God is Lord of hosts; and as the Rabbis well observe, he hath his cavalry and his infantry, or his horse and his foot; his upper forces and his lower, ready pressed. "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels," Psa 68:17 and what can the Egyptian horse do against such worthy warriors?