Hoshea

When the successor of Moses was being appointed, Hoshea son of Nun was changed from his former name, and began to be called Jesus [Joshua].

But again Moses — why, indeed, did he then, when Joshua was fighting against Amalek, pray sitting with hands outstretched, when in matters so urgent he ought rather to have commended his prayer on bended knees, with hands beating his breast and his face rolled in the dust — except that there, where the name of the Lord Jesus was spoken, of those who would one day do battle against the devil, the p …

He changes Peter's name too from Simon — because the Creator too reformed the names of Abraham and Sarah and Hoshea, calling this one Jesus, to those adding syllables.