5. What ailed thee, O sea? Were you terribly afraid? Did your strength fail you? Did your very heart dry up? That thou fleddest? You were neighbor to the power of Pharaoh, but you never feared his hosts; stormy wind could never prevail against you so as to divide you in two; but when the way of the Lord was in your great waters you were seized with affright, and became a fugitive from before him. Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Your fountains had not dried up, neither had a chasm opened to engulf you! The near approach of Israel and her God sufficed to make you retrace your steps. What ails all our enemies that they fly when the Lord is on our side? What ails hell itself that it is utterly routed when Jesus lifts up a standard against it?
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