ACC ~ Hebrews 11 v29

EVERYWHERE FAITH GOES BEYOND HUMAN REASONINGS. CHRYSOSTOM: Again he compares one whole people with another, lest they should say, “We cannot be as the saints.” “By faith,” he says, “they passed through the Red Sea as if by dry land, which the Egyptians were drowned in trying to do.” Here he leads them also to a recollection of the sufferings in Egypt. How “by faith”? Because they had hoped to pass through the sea, and therefore they prayed, or rather it was Moses who prayed. Do you see that everywhere faith goes beyond human reasonings and weakness and lowliness? Do you see that at the same time they both believed and feared punishment, both in the blood on the doors and in the Red Sea? And he made it clear that it was really water, through those that fell into it and were choked. He made it clear that it was not a mere appearance. Rather it was, as in the case of the lions, those who were devoured proved the reality of the facts; and in the case of the fiery furnace, those who were burned. Here also you see that the same things become to the one a cause of salvation and glory, and to the other of destruction.

So great a good is faith. When we fall into perplexity, then are we delivered, even though we come to death itself, even though our condition is desperate. For what else was left for them? They were unarmed, surrounded by the Egyptians and the sea. They must either be drowned if they fled, or fall into the hands of the Egyptians. But nevertheless God saved them from impossibilities. That which was spread under the one as land overwhelmed the others as sea. In the former case, it forgot its nature; in the latter, it actually armed itself against them.ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 27.2.

THE EGYPTIANS WERE WITHOUT FAITH. EPHREM THE SYRIAN: “By faith they crossed the Red Sea.” In fact, the people who entered into it believed and crossed it as if on dry land. On the other hand, the Egyptians went into it without faith and received the reward for their crimes in the midst of it. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.

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