Verse 2
2. Were baptized Greek middle voice, baptized themselves; that is, accepted the virtual baptism. Their own wills concurred with the divine act.
Unto Moses Greek, εις , into Moses; into that religion of which Moses was representative. So Romans 6:3, baptized into Christ.
In the cloud As overshadowing them.
In the sea The sea, like the flood in
1 Peter 1:2, suggests the baptismal element from which the simile of baptism takes its start. No definite image of the form of baptism, whether by affusion or immersion, is framed in either case.
Satan is our Pharaoh, Christ is our Moses, the pass of the sea is our baptism, the Holy Spirit is our guiding, protecting, separating, and consecrating fiery-cloudy pillar.
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