George Leo Haydock, on Wis 19:7

“For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:”

“Field. Like a meadow, (Calmet) germinans, “growing grass.” (Septuagint) (Haydock) — Pliny ([Natural History?] xiii. 25.) attests, that “the Red Sea, and all the eastern ocean, are full of wood.” The Hebrews passed with as much ease as in a desert, (Psalm cv. 9., and Isaias lxiii. 13.) or place of pasture, while the sea seemed to be in quest of other channels. (Calmet) (Genesis i. 9.) (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.