Verse 7
7. Our fathers… in Egypt Their sin and unfaithfulness dated back to the beginning of God’s redeeming mercy to them.
At the Red sea The allusion is to Exodus 14:11-12. At their first great trial after their departure from bondage they sinned, because they had failed to comprehend the moral intent of, and to profit by, all the great miracles of Egypt.
Red sea Hebrew, sea of soph; that is, sea of sedge, or flags, or sea-weed, so called on account of the quantity of weeds which float upon the water and line the shores, and of the growth of flags and reeds upon its inlets and lowlands. Thus, “Pi-hahiroth,” where they encamped, (Exodus 14:2,) is, according to Robinson, “Most probably a word of Egyptian origin, denoting a place of reeds a salt marsh,” or a gullet, or champaign section running out from the sea between the hills.
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