He remembered — This relates, either To the people, and then he is collectively taken, and so it looks like the language of the people in Babylon, and must be read, he shall remember. Or, It may look back to their condition in the wilderness, and thus they may properly say, Where is he? Or that God who delivered his people of old, to do the like for us now? There is a like phrase used by God, as it were recollecting himself, Where is he? Where am I with my former bowels, that moved me to help them of old? His people — What great things he had done for them by Moses. The sea — Here God speaks of himself, as in the former clause, that divided the sea for them. Shepherds — Moses and Aaron. Holy spirit — Those abilities and gifts, wherewith God furnished Moses, as properly proceeding from the Spirit.

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