“... Yet another element of Ezekiel's Exagoge can be found in Philo's Vita: Ezekiel tells us that during its flight from Egypt, the Egyptian army catches up with the Jews when they are feeding their wives and children (Exag. 207). An echo of this pathetic amplification of the biblical narrative is also present in Philo, because in his Vita the Egyptians arrive at the encampment of the Jews when they are having their supper (Mos. 1.169). [...] Philo does not only accept exegetical traditions from outside the Exagoge, but sometimes openly differs from Ezechiel. For example, when amplifying Exod 14,28, he confirms that from Pharaoh's army "not even a torchbearer survived to announce to the people of Egypt the sudden disaster" (Mos. 1.179), whereas in the Exagoge the messenger speech is precisely uttered by a rescued Egyptian soldier who describes the crossing of the Red Sea and the catastrophe of his own army. ...”