Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Joshua 4:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 201, footnote 12 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2846 (In-Text, Margin)

... was shewn too the spot by the wayside where the blind men sat who, receiving their sight from the Lord, became types of the two peoples who should believe upon Him. Then entering Jericho she saw the city which Hiel founded in Abiram his firstborn and of which he set up the gates in his youngest son Segub. She looked upon the camp of Gilgal and the hill of the foreskins suggestive of the mystery of the second circumcision: and she gazed at the twelve stones brought thither out of the bed of Jordan[Joshua 4:20] to be symbols of those twelve foundations on which are written the names of the twelve apostles. She saw also that fountain of the Law most bitter and barren which the true Elisha healed by his wisdom changing it into a well sweet and fertilising. ...