“They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;”
Deeds of wonder in the land of Ham, awesome acts by the Red Sea. The reiteration of Egypt's miracles and the Red Sea crossing emphasizes that these experiences ought to have created permanent faith. The adjectives 'awesome' describe the character of God's acts, suggesting that their very nature ought to compel allegiance. Repetition itself becomes a rhetorical strategy, hammering home the tragedy of Israel's forgetting.
Church Fathers on Psalms 106:21
1. This Psalm also has the title Allelujah prefixed to it: and this twice. But some say, that one Allelujah belongs to the end of the former Psalm, the other to the beginning of this. And they assert, that all the Psalms bearing this title have Allelujah at the end, but not all at the beginning; so that they will not allow any Psalm which has not Allelujah at the end, to have it at the beginning; supposing that what seems to belong to the commencement, really belongs to the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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