Ques. 15.-How do you reconcile Ex. 14:16, 21, 22 with Heb. 11:29? Was it not sight when they could see a clear path through the sea? " It is evident that the sea was not divided throughout at once, had it been so it would have been sight, not faith."

Ans.-From the language in Exodus there seems to be no question that the waters were divided from shore to shore at once. A simple reading of the passage referred to, will make this clear. When Israel had passed over and Moses' rod was again lifted, the sea returned to his strength. There is not the slightest contradiction to the statement in Hebrews. The act was one of faith; God had prepared them a way and they, by faith, walked in it. Unbelief would have refused the way and bowed again to the Egyptians.

When we remember the typical meaning of the opening of the Red Sea we are compelled to accept this view. Death and judgment shut up the people of God under the power of sin, from which there was no escape. The seventh chapter of Romans gives the account of the hopeless struggle, the longing cry for deliverance, the hope in Christ; and the opening verses of the eighth chapter show the complete deliverance, connecting it with the death of our Lord which by "the law of the Spirit has made us free from the law of sin and death." We need only ask, was the death and resurrection of Christ a gradual opening up of the way of escape, or did it not throw wide open the door of deliverance? Was not a shining path opened up from shore to shore? but is it not also a path in which faith alone can walk? Pharaoh and his hosts had an open way to pursue after the Israelites; but having no faith, it was but a way of death to them.