The interpretation timeline

Josh 8:28

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Josh 8:28 · Douay-Rheims
“And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever:”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“You see that these things that follow truly pertain more to the truth of a mystery than that of history. For it is not so much that a piece of land is forever uninhabitable, but that the place of demons will be uninhabitable when no one will sin and sin will not rule in anyone. Then the devil and his angels will be consigned to the eternal fire with our Lord Jesus Christ sitting as ruler and judge and saying to those who overcame before and afterwards, "Come, blessed of my Father, take possession of the kingdom that was created for you by my Father." But to the others he will say, "Go into the eternal fire that God prepared for the devil and his angels." until he takes care of every soul with the remedies he himself knows and "all Israel may be saved."”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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