Joshua 2:18 (WEB)
Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Fathers and councils · 3
Cyprian of Carthage
“…all thy father’s household unto thee into thine house; and whosoever shall go out of the doors of thine house into the street, his blood shall be upon him.”” — editor's note: Josh. ii. 18, 19.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…of safety, because her faith had conquered, bound a scarlet thread in her window, and thus uplifted a sign of her faith and the banner of the Lord’s Passion; so that the semblance of the mystic blood, which should redeem the world, might be in memory.” — editor's note: Josh. ii. 18.
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Jerome
“So, too, with a mystic reference to the shedding of blood, it was a scarlet cord which the harlot Rahab (a type of the church) hung in her window to preserve her house in the destruction of Jericho.” — editor's note: Josh. ii. 18.
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