Joshua
historical figure · 7 works · 11 mentions · 15 anchored passages
Joshua the son of John Smith · Joshua the son of Nun · Joshua, son of Nun · the son of none · the successor of Moses · the true Joshua
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Israelite military leader named alongside Moses in the war against the Amalekites.
chapter of Exodus supplies a passage more to the purpose, relating the overthrow which the Israelites, conducted by Moses and Joshua, made of the Amalekites.
So the people of Israel under the command of Joshua took up arms in support of the Gibeonites, whom they had subdued.
The feigned flight, which Joshua ordered his people to make, to assist him in his designs upon Ai, affords an instance of a stratagem of the second kind;
Adversus Marcionem
Successor of Moses, cited both for the sabbath-breaking siege of Jericho and as a type for Christ's naming of Peter and choosing of twelve.
the twelve springs of Elim, and the twelve gems in the priestly tunic of Aaron, and the twelve stones chosen by Joshua out of the Jordan and laid up in the ark of the testament.
If Christ broke into the sabbath, he did it according to the example of the Creator — seeing that, in the siege of the city of Jericho, the ark of the testament being carried about the walls for eight days, even on the sabbath, by the precept of the Creator, the sabbath was destroyed by working, as those think who reckon this even of Christ, being ignorant that neither Christ destroyed the sabbath …
Read that to the exiled family, when it was to be parted, in its crossing, the Jordan was a sword, whose impetus and current Joshua too had plainly taught to stand still as the prophets passed over.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Biblical successor to Moses, invoked as a figure of extraordinary authority unlike ordinary magistrates.
A village magistrate, or the magistrate of a city, is neither a Moses nor a Joshua.
Protrepticus
The unnamed successor of Moses (Joshua), whose example of faith the wandering Hebrews are said to have followed.
And indeed the end of the threat, as the elders among the Hebrews who wandered say enigmatically, the threat — for they are said not to enter into the rest because of unbelief, until, following the successor of Moses, they learned at last by experience that they could not otherwise be saved than by believing as Jesus did.
Stromata
Joshua, successor to Moses as leader of the Hebrews, whose length of rule is used to open the chronology of judges and kings.
So from Joshua the son of Nun until David took over the kingdom there are, as some say, four hundred and fifty years;
After the end of Moses' life, Joshua succeeds to the leadership of the people, making war for sixty-five years, and resting in the good land another twenty-five.
And with the Law, Moses and Aaron, after whom prophesy Joshua the son of Nun, Samuel, Gad, Nathan, Achias, Samaias, Iu, Elijah, Michaias, Abdiu, Elisha, Abdadonai, Amos, Isaiah, Hosea, Jonah, Joel, Jeremiah, Sophonias, Buzi, Ezekiel, Urias, Ambacum, Naum, Daniel, Misael (the author of the syllogisms), Aggaeus, Zacharias, and the Messenger among the Twelve.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Successor of Moses who commands the sun and moon to stand still while defeating the Amorites, cited as a fasting precedent.
Do we suppose that Joshua, son of Nun, dined that day on which he defeated the Amorites, when he laid a Station upon the very elements?
Law in a Free State
The hypothetical illegitimate child of Susan Jones and reputed son of John Smith, used to illustrate the paradox of being both of and not of a family under the law.
Having laid it down that Joshua is not of the kindred of John Smith's family, yet when he comes to marry, it interposes and says:
” By this logic does little Joshua the son of none become at the same time Joshua the son of John Smith, and perhaps also, as some do falsely boast, Joshua the son of the people.