Joshua 3:12 (WEB)
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…at the foot of the mountain,—the same number which was placed by Joshua in the river, and again, on the other side, the bearers of the ark of the covenant,—those stones which were set up by Elijah when the heifer was offered as a burnt-offering; the number, too, of the apostles; and, in fine, every event which…” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 12.
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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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