Joshua 10:12 (WEB)
Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“For in such space of time as was sufficient was that battle fought and ended.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12–14.
Read the whole comment“Who else save Joshua the son of Nun divided the stream of the Jordan for the people to pass over, and by the utterance of a prayer to God bridled and stopped the revolving sun?” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12–14.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…lest the heathen host should escape on the descent of night, cried out, saying, “Sun, stand thou still in Gibeon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon,” until I vanquish this people.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And if the sun stood still in Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajalon, yet this was the work, not of the son of Nun, but of the Lord, Who heard his prayer.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12.
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John Chrysostom
“Joshua the son of Nun said, “Let the sun stand still at Gibeon, the moon at the valley of Elom” ( Josh. x. 12 ), and it was so.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“…wars; seeing on her right Ajalon and Gibeon where Joshua the son of Nun when fighting against the five kings gave commandments to the sun and moon, where also he condemned the Gibeonites (who by a crafty stratagem had obtained a treaty) to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12–14.
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Tertullian
“Think we that Joshua the son of Nun, when warring down the Amorites, had breakfasted on that day on which he ordered the very elements to keep a Station?” — editor's note: See Josh. x. 12–14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Again, when he fought against the Gibeonites and feared that night might stop him from gaining the victory, he called out with deep faith and high spirit: “Let the sun stand still;” and it stood still until the victory was complete.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12.
Read the whole comment“Worthy surely was he to stand forth as a man who might stay the course of the river, and who might say: “Sun, stand still,” and delay the night and lengthen the day, as though to witness his victory.” — editor's note: Josh. x. 12, 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…bread upon them, and abounding in quails, nourishing them not only with necessaries, but even with luxuries: that He, Who divided the sea, and stayed the sun, and parted the river, with all the other things that He has done; for under such circumstances the mind is wont to recur to history, and sing the praises of…” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 16; x. 12.
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.40.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.40.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.40.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §16.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §16.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §16.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in Confessions XI.23.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.