the word we said to thee in Egypt, 'depart from us that we may serve the Egyptians'? for it would have been better to have served them than to die here." Moses

said to the people, "Fear not, stand still and see the great wonders the Lord will do for you this day; for the Egyptians whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever."

It was night by the time that the Egyptian army came up to the encampment of Israel, and the pillar of the cloud that was before Israel, now moved its place and stood between the two armies, so that they could not come near each other. To the children of Israel it gave light in the night, while it was all darkness to the Egyptians, and prevented their seeing the people in pursuit of whom they were come.

Moses now sent word to all the people to be ready to march, and stretching forth his hand over the sea, the Lord brought a strong and burning wind that blew all the night, so that the sea was divided, and a passage left open on the dry ground, the waters forming a wall on the right hand and on the left. Through this passage, thus opened, the people passed during the night; and early in the morning, as soon as it was light, the Egyptian army seeing that they were gone, followed after them into the sea. When they were fairly entered into the path through the sea, the Lord looked from the pillar of the cloud and troubled their host, and the Egyptians in their terror began to cry out, "Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against us."

Moses now, at the command of God, stretched forth

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his rod over the sea, and the waters returned to their place, and covered the whole army of the Egyptians, so that not so much as one of them remained; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea shore.

PHARAO AND HIS HOST DROWNED IN THE RED SEA.

§ 11. The Canticle of Triumph sung by Moses.

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this canticle unto the Lord :

EXPLANATION OF THE TYPE OF THE RED SEA.-The passage of the Red Sea is referred to by St. Paul, as a type of the Sacrament of Baptism :"For I would not

CANTICLE OF MOSES.

1 Let us sing to the Lord: for He is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider He hath thrown into the sea.

2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and He is become salvation to me: He is my God and I will glorify Him: the God of my father, and I will exalt Him.

3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is His name.

4 Pharao's chariots and his army He hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

5 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: Thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.

7 And in the multitude of Thy glory Thou hast put down Thy adversaries: Thou hast sent Thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.

8 And with the blast of Thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

11 Who is like to Thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to Thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?

12 Thou stretchedst forth Thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.

13 In Thy mercy Thou hast been a leader to the people which Thou hast redeemed: and in Thy strength Thou hast carried them to Thy holy habitation.

14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab all the inhabitants of Canaan became stiff.

16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of Thy arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until Thy people, O Lord, pass by until this Thy people pass by, which Thou hast possessed.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Thy inheritance, in Thy most firm habitation which Thou hast made, O Lord; Thy sanctuary O Lord which Thy hands have established.

18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

SECOND SUBDIVISION.-WANDERING IN THE DESERT 40 YEARS.

§ 12. Discontent begins. The Manna falls from Heaven, B.C. 1490. Hardly had the people finished their song of triumph, than they began to be discontented on finding

have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all in Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea." (I. Cor., x., 1.) Passing through the Red Sea, the people were delivered from being slaves to Pharao the king of Egypt, whose power was utterly destroyed in its waters. In the water of the sacrament of Baptism, the power of Satan over us is broken, and we are taken out of the state of servitude to him. Also, when they were safe through the Red Sea, the sea became a barrier between them and Egypt, separating them from all the idolatries, vices, and luxuries of the land of Egypt, and preventing their return to them. In the sacrament of Baptism we renounce all the pride of the world, the wicked desires of the flesh, and the pomps of the Devil, and promise our Lord never to return to them, but to be satisfied with such blessings and graces as He will be pleased to give us in our passage through the wilderness to the promised land, viz., Heaven, where He reigns for ever with His Saints.

that though Egypt had been a land of bitter servitude, from which they were rejoiced to escape, the wilderness they had come into had also its sufferings. The first well they came to, contained nothing but bitter water, which caused them to murmur against Moses. Moses changed its waters from bitter to sweet. After this they moved to Elim, where they found palm-trees and a stream of sweet water. In their next encampment, the bread that they had brought out of Egypt beginning to fail, the whole congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron: "Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh-pots, and ate bread to the full! Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy the whole multitude with famine?” Moses and Aaron answered: "What are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord." The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: "I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel; say to them, 'In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God."" And so it came to pass: the same evening quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp. And when the children of Israel saw it looking like hoar-frost on the ground, they said one to another, "Manhü," or, "What is this ?" Moses said to them: "This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. He that gathereth more, let him give to him that gathereth less." He taught the people also to gather on the sixth day each man a double portion,

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"For the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found." hot, it melted and disappeared. like flour with honey.

After the sun grew Its taste also was Such was the bread with

TYPE OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST.

which the people were fed, till they came to the borders of the land promised to them; and the house of Israel called the name of it Manna.

EXPLANATION OF THE TYPE OF THE MANNA.-The Manna that fell down from heaven is a type of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. "I am the bread of life,"