Jordan
place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Jordan · the river Jordan
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The river where Naaman is cleansed and where Joshua takes twelve stones, both read typologically.
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.
But if Elisha, the prophet of the Creator, cleansed the single leper Naaman the Syrian out of so many Israelite lepers, neither does this make for a diversity of Christ, as though in this way the better — in that a stranger cleanses an Israelite leper whom his own lord could not cleanse — the Syrian the more easily cleansed signifying, through the nations, of those who bristled with the seven stai …
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.
The Rights of War and Peace
River marking the extent of the territory disputed in the Jephthah episode.
For we find in holy writ, that when the King of the Ammonites demanded the lands situated between the rivers Arnon and Jabok, and those extending from the deserts of Arabia to the Jordan, Jepthah opposed his pretentions by proving his own possession of the same for three hundred years, and asked why he and his ancestors had for so long a period neglected to make their claim.
De Baptismo
The river where John baptized, cited to argue that all waters are equally valid for baptism.
nor is there any difference between those whom John baptized in the Jordan and those whom Peter baptized in the Tiber.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The river where Christ's baptism took place, invoked hypothetically in contrast to his fast.
The Lord Himself soon dedicated His own baptism—and in His own that of all—with fastings, though He was able to make loaves out of stones, and perhaps even to make Jordan run with wine, had He been such a glutton and wine-bibber.
De Pallio
River named as the boundary-marker of the desolate region once containing Sodom.
Where the river Jordan is the arbiter of the boundaries, there is a vast wilderness, and an orphaned region, and a field to no purpose.