Êxodo 15
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Êxodo 15:1
As the perfect Bride of the perfect husband, then, she has received the words of perfect doctrine. Moses and the children of Israel sang the first song to God when "they saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore" and when they saw "the strong hand" and the mighty strong arm "of the Lord and [when they] believed in God and Moses his servant." Then they sang, therefore, saying, "Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified." And I think that nobody can attain to that perfect and mystical song and to the perfection of the Bride which this Scripture contains unless he first marches "through the midst of the sea upon dry land" and, with "the water becoming to him as a wall on the right hand and on the left," so makes his escape "from the hands of the Egyptians." [Then] he "beholds them dead on the seashore" and, seeing the strong hand with which the Lord has acted against the Egyptians, believes in the Lord and in his servant Moses. In Moses, I say—in the law, and in the Gospels and in all the divine Scriptures. For them he will have good cause to sing and say, "Let us sing unto the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified." — COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, PROLOGUE 4
Êxodo 15:16
God is asked that for a short while the Gentiles might be changed into stones—that is what the Greek word apolithōthētōsan really means—"until the Jewish people passes through." There is no doubt but that after they have passed through, the Gentiles will cease to be stone and will receive in place of their hard hearts a human and rational nature in Christ, to whom is glory and power for ages of ages. Amen. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 22.10