Joshua 3:15 (WEB)
and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“The river Jordan, when they were entering across it into the land of promise, when touched by the feet of the priests who bore the Ark, stood still from above with bridled stream, while it flowed down from below, where it ran on into the sea, until the whole people passed over, the priests standing on the dry ground.” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 15–17.
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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. iii. 15 ff.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…the righteous forming both prayers and the invincible 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…” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 15, 16.
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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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Cross-references · 11
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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.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.20.