Joshua 3:10 (WEB)
Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
Catechism · 1
“God, however, is the "living God"” — Catechism footnote: Josh 3:10; Ps 42:3; etc.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“Read, too, how that the Jordan was as a sword, to hinder the emigrant nation in their passage across its stream; how that its waters from above stood still, and its current below wholly ceased to run at the bidding of Joshua, when his priests began to pass over!” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 9–17.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he says, is the great Jordan which, flowing on (here) below, and preventing the children of Israel from departing out of Egypt—I mean from terrestrial intercourse, for Egypt is with them the body,—Jesus drove back, and made it flow upwards.” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 7–17.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Catechism §2112.
