Ambrose of Milan, on Exod 15:10

“Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.”

“Moses himself says in his song, "You sent your Spirit, and the sea covered them." You observe that even then holy baptism was prefigured in that passage of the Hebrews, wherein the Egyptian perished, the Hebrew escaped. For what else are we daily taught in this sacrament but that guilt is swallowed up and error done away, but that virtue and innocence remain unharmed?”

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