Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 14:24

24 And it came to pass, that in the morningwatch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire, and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians.

The night was antiently divided not by hours, as now it is, but by watches, which sometimes were accounted four, and sometimes but three. Howsoever the last of them was called the morning-watch. Then when they hoped for most advantage in the pursuit, they met with their greatest disaster.

Called the Angel of God, ver. 19. By which promiscuous use of these Titles it sufficiently appears, that this was no ordinary Angel, but the Son of God.

With an eye of indignation and vengeance, as that phrase is used, Iob 40. 12. See also Amos 9. 4.

With most terrible and prodigious Winds and Rains, and Lightnings, and both claps and bolts of Thunder, as may be gathered from Exod. 15. 10. Psal. 77. 18, 19. and as some antient Historians relate; with terrours also in their minds, &c.