Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 14:27

27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared: and the Egyptians fled against it : and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

To its natural and ordinary course, and motion, which is swift and strong, from which it had been hitherto restrained by a stronger hand, and rendred in a manner impotent and wea[illegible: 1+ letters]. But now Sampson-like, when its bonds are broken, it puts forth its former and natural strength. But indeed this word may belong to the morning, and so a learned man translates the place, and that very agreeably to the use and order of the Hebrew words, the Sea returned, to wit, to its course, when the morning appeared according to or in his strength, i. e. when it was full and clear ▪morning, as we oft read of the strength of the day. See Gen. 7. 13. Iob 21. 23. So the strength of the morning is here opposed to the morning-watch.

Against the Sea, for which way soever they fled, the waters met them and fought against them.

Marginal references: Heb. shook off. Deut. 11. 4.