Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 27:18

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 220, footnote 2 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Dialogue with Trypho (HTML)

Chapter XLIX.—To those who object that Elijah has not yet come, he replies that he is the precursor of the first advent. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2104 (In-Text, Margin)

To this I replied, “Do you not think that the same thing happened in the case of Joshua the son of Nave (Nun), who succeeded to the command of the people after Moses, when Moses was commanded to lay his hands on Joshua, and God said to him, ‘I will take of the spirit which is in thee, and put it on him?’ ”[Numbers 27:18]

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 571, footnote 9 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus (HTML)

XIX. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4826 (In-Text, Margin)

“Take unto thee Joshua (᾽Ιησοῦν) the son of Nun.”[Numbers 27:18] For it was proper that Moses should lead the people out of Egypt, but that Jesus (Joshua) should lead them into the inheritance. Also that Moses, as was the case with the law, should cease to be, but that Joshua (᾽Ιησοῦν), as the word, and no untrue type of the Word made flesh (ἐνυποστάτου), should be a preacher to the people. Then again, [it was fit] that Moses should ...