Joshua 5:2 (WEB)
At that time, the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
Fathers and councils · 5
Tertullian
“…Moses (that is, not through the Law’s discipline), but through Joshua (that is, through the new law’s grace), after our circumcision with “a knife of rock” (that is, with Christ’s precepts, for Christ is in many ways and figures predicted as a rock); therefore the man who was being prepared to act as images of…” — editor's note: See Josh. v. 2–9, especially in LXX. Comp. the margin in the Eng. ver. in ver. 2, “flint knives,” and Wordsworth in loc., who refers to Ex. iv. 25, for which…
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John Damascene
“…of Nun: At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee knives of stone from the sharp rock, and assemble and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time; and a little later: For the children of Israel walked forty and twoyears in the wilderness of Battaris, till all the people that were men of war, which came…” — editor's note: Josh. v. 2.
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Justin Martyr
“Jesus Christ circumcises all who will—as was declared above —with knives of stone; that they may be a righteous nation, a people keeping faith, holding to the truth, and maintaining peace.” — editor's note: Josh. v. 2; Isa. xxvi. 2, 3.
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Jerome
“Remind her that she must pass through snares innumerable to arrive at mount Nebo and the River Jordan, that she must receive circumcision anew at Gilgal, that Jericho must fall before her, overthrown by the blasts of priestly trumpets, that Adoni-zedec must be slain, that Ai and Hazor, once fairest of cities,…” — editor's note: Josh. v. 2, 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in Jesus the son of Nave: “And the Lord said unto Jesus, Make thee small knives of stone, very sharp, and set about to circumcise the children of Israel for the second time.”” — editor's note: Josh. v. 2.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 24.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.9.