Thinking Of Baptism

Τῇ θείᾳ ψήφῳ βεβαπτίσθαι Ἰσραηλῖται λογίζονται, περαιῶντες τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν, καίτοι μὴ βαπτισθέντες. Οὕτως ἔδοξε Θεῷ τὸν δευτερότοκον Ἐφραῗμ πρωτότοκον λέγεσθαι, καὶ προκρίνεσθαι τοῦ μείζονος Μανασσῆ, ἵν' ἡμεῖς ζητῶμεν τὰς τούτων σημασίας. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλιον Δεύτερον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΙΔ' Αντωνιῳ Σκολαστικῳ Source: Migne PG 79.205d

By Divine decree the Israelites are reckoned to have been baptised when they passed through the Red Sea, and yet they were not. 1 Thus it seemed to God to call the second born Ephraim the first born and to foretell that he would become greater than Manasseh, 2 that we seek the meaning of these things. Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 2, Letter 14 to Antonius the Scholar 1 1 Cor 10.1-2 2 Genes 48.17-19