![]() ![]() 15.) says, that the Lord made himself a road, to drive his chariot and horses across the sea, through the heap of great waters. To omit the numerous allusions in the book of Psalms, Isaiah says, God divided the waves before his people, and that he conducted them through the bottom of the abyss, as a horse is led through the midst of a field. ![]() Various ancient traditions among the heathen historians attest the reality of the miraculous passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites to which we may add, that it is manifest from the text of Moses and of other sacred authors, who have mentioned this miraculous passage, that no other account can be supported, but that which supposes the Hebrews to cross the sea from shore to shore, in a vast space of dry ground, which was left void by the waters at their retiring. He further remarks, that a narrow gulf, under the immediate influence of monsoons blowing from contrary points during six months in each year, would be too much agitated to produce such vegetables, which are seldom found but in stagnant waters, and still more rarely - if ever - found in salt waters. Bruce, who had examined its whole extent, states that he never observed a single weed in it. It is thus denominated, according to some authors, from the variety of sea-weeds which are said to be visible at low water but Mr. The name, in Hebrew, signifies the “Weedy Sea,” or the “Sea of Weeds,” which appellation it still retains in the Coptic language. “He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up.” Psalm evi. ![]() THE RED SEA, AND THE PORT OF SUEZ.ĭrawn by J. The old walls of Suez, and the remains which are still left of its harbor, are constructed of fossil shells, testimonies of the deluge. The Port of Suez stands at the mouth of the canal which formerly united the Red Sea with the Mediterranean. ![]()
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