Joshua 5:7 (WEB)
Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
Fathers and councils · 2
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
“And their children, whom He raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.” — editor's note: Josh. v. 6, 7.
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Cross-references · 3
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 An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.