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Num 13:16

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 13:16 · Douay-Rheims
“Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
339
A.D.
Eusebius of Caesarea Patristic
c. A.D. 260–339
“And the same [Moses] by divine inspiration foresaw the name Jesus very clearly and again also endowed this with special privilege. The name of Jesus, which had never been uttered among men before it was made known to Moses, Moses applied first to this one alone. He knew that Joshua, again as a type and a symbol, would receive the rule over all after Moses' death. His successor, at any rate, had never before used the title Jesus. He had been called by another name, Auses, which his parents had bestowed upon him. Moses himself proclaims Jesus, as a privilege of honor far greater than a royal crown, giving him the name because Jesus, the son of Nave, himself bore a resemblance to our Savior, who alone, after Moses and the completion of the symbolic worship transmitted by him, received the rule of true and pure religion.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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