Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Abyssi operuerunt eos ; descenderunt in profundum quasi lapis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πόντῳ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτούς· κατέδυσαν εἰς βυθὸν ὡσεὶ λίθος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תְּהֹמֹ֖ת יְכַסְיֻ֑מוּ יָרְד֥וּ בִמְצוֹלֹ֖ת כְּמוֹ אָֽבֶן
The Fathers on this verse
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, The Victory of the God-Beloved Emperors
5. Thus, as in the time of Moses himself and of the ancient God-beloved race of Hebrews, “he cast Pharaoh’s chariots and host into the sea, and overwhelmed his chosen charioteers in the Red Sea, and covered them with the flood,” in the same way Maxentius also with his soldiers and body-guards “went down into the depths like a stone,” when he fled before the power of God which was with Constantine, and passed through the river which lay in his way, over which he had formed a bridge with boats, and thus prepared the means of his own destruction.
Eusebius The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius, Death of Maxentius on the Bridge of the Tiber
And already he was approaching very near Rome itself, when, to save him from the necessity of fighting with all the Romans for the tyrant’s sake, God himself drew the tyrant, as it were by secret cords, a long way outside the gates. And now those miracles recorded in Holy Writ, which God of old wrought against the ungodly (discredited by most as fables, yet believed by the faithful), did he in every deed confirm to all alike, believers and unbelievers, who were eye-witnesses of the wonders. …