Joshua 10:13 (WEB)
The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“InExodus we read that the battle was fought against Amalek while Moses prayed, and the whole people fasted until the evening.Joshua, the son of Nun, bade sun and moon stand still, and the victorious army prolonged its fast for more than a day.Saul, as it is written in the first book…” — editor's note: Josh. x. 13.
Read the whole comment“…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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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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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.
Read the whole comment“If, however, it was their enemy to whom all this injury was done, the heaven would have gleamed with light, the sun would have been even more radiant, and the day would have prolonged its course—gladly gazing at Marcion’s Christ suspended on his gibbet!” — editor's note: Comp. Josh. x. 13.
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Ambrose of Milan
“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
“…trophy of the Cross; the River shall be cut off; the sun shall stand still; and the moon be restrained; walls shall be overthrown even without engines; swarms of hornets shall go before thee to make a way for Israel, and to hold the Gentiles in check; and all the other events which are told in the history…” — editor's note: Ib. x. 13.
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Aphrahat
“Furthermore by his faith he spread out his hands towards heaven and stayed the sun in Gibeon and the moon in the valley of Ajalon.” — editor's note: Jos. x. 13.
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Cross-references · 11
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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.
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.