They were all baptized as followers of Moses. Scholars see in being under the cloud and passing safely through the sea the double-process of SUBMERSION and EMERGENCE in baptism. Compare note on Acts 8:38-39. In this act, they committed themselves to the leadership of Moses, showed their belief in his divine mission, and entered through him into fellowship with God. All this is symbolic of the one who becomes a Christian by escaping from the slavery of sin, who commits himself to the leadership of Christ, and shows his belief in the divine mission of Christ by being "buried with him in baptism" (see Colossians 2:12; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:27).

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