Exodus 14:27

And the sea returned.

A sudden cessation of the wind at sunrise, coinciding with the spring-tide, would immediately convert the low flat sand-banks, into quicksand first, and then into. mass of waters, in. far less time than would suffice for the escape of. single chariot or horseman.-- Canon Cook.

The Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

There can be no doubt that the king and host perished in the midst of the sea. The blow so crippled the Egyptians that no more pursuit was made of the fugitives. Egyptian history seems to point out, as gathered from the monuments, that it was seventeen years after the death of this king before any attempt was made to recover the lost ascendency of Egypt in Arabia and Syria.

Thus the Israelites "were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea," for "they all were under the cloud and passed through the sea" (1 Corinthians 10:1-2). The Red Sea of their baptism was rolled between them and Egypt, idolatry, their enemies and their past life, as baptism comes between the penitent sinner and the thraldom of his Egypt of bondage.