Jericho

So in the rest too you reproach Him with contrarieties of precepts, as fickle and unstable, forbidding work on the sabbath and commanding the ark to be carried round for eight days, that is, even on the sabbath, in the storming of the city of Jericho.

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 …

" All these things He endured because of His great love for mankind toward His own creation, that He might rescue the lost sheep and unite the one saved, and might bring back again, healthy, to his own fatherland the man who had gone down from Jerusalem to Jericho and on that account had fallen among robbers.

but He leads by His discourse a certain man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and shows him pierced through by robbers, flung half-dead upon the road, passed by by a priest, overlooked by a Levite, but pitied by the Samaritan—the reproached and excluded man—who passed not by chance, as those others did, but came furnished with the things the man in peril needed:

In short, so far is this solemnity from being celebrated in the cessation of the Sabbath — that is, of the seventh day — that Joshua son of Nun, at the time when he was warring down the city of Jericho, said that a command had been given him by God to charge the people that the priests should carry the ark of God's covenant around the circuit of the city for seven days, and that thus, when the cir …