Joshua 3:16 (WEB)
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
Fathers and councils · 6
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
“Jordan being turned back, returned, contrary to nature, to the source of its stream.” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…bread upon them, and abounding in quails, nourishing them not only with necessaries, but even with luxuries: that He, Who divided the sea, and stayed the sun, and parted the river, with all the other things that He has done; for under such circumstances the mind is wont to recur to history, and sing the praises of…” — editor's note: Josh. iii. 16; x. 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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