The interpretation timeline

Josh 22:10

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Josh 22:10 · Douay-Rheims
“And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“Do you still wish that I prove more clearly to you that all things among that prior people, whom Moses foreshadowed in the two and a half tribes, were neither complete nor perfect? Even the history written in this little book itself, Jesus [Joshua], son of Nun, also declares it when it says that the true altar was in the land that Jesus [Joshua] was distributing. But those who were across the Jordan, that is, Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, made an altar for themselves, but it was not a true altar. It merely contained a type and sign of the true altar that was with Jesus [Joshua]. Thus you have no cause to wonder whether or not those people had received the entire knowledge of the Trinity, since they had built neither an entire nor a true altar.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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