episode is over, done, finished: “They are extinguished, they are put out like a wick,” even as Exod. 14 so dramatically pictures the incident. Verse 18. The next step in the prophet’s thinking is almost the very opposite of what we might have expected. He says not: “Remember,” He says: “Remember not former things.” Extreme forms of statement must always be regarded with due caution. In 46:9 Israel is bidden to “remember the former things.” So the present statement must be meant in the sense of letting