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| Chapter CXXXII.—How great the power was of the name of Jesus in the Old Testament.
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Chapter CXXXII.—How great the power
was of the name of Jesus in the Old Testament.
“Yet after this you made a
calf, and were very zealous in committing fornication with the daughters
of strangers, and in serving idols. And again, when the land was given up
to you with so great a display of power, that you witnessed2462
| 2462 [Another Americanism.
Greek, θεάσασθαι.]
| the sun stand still in the heavens by the order of that man whose
name was Jesus (Joshua), and not go down for thirty-six hours,
as well as all the other miracles which were wrought for you as
time served;2463
| 2463 The
anacoluthon is in the original. | and of these it seems good to
me now to speak of another, for it conduces to your hereby knowing Jesus,
whom we also know to have been Christ the Son of God, who was crucified,
and rose again, and ascended to heaven, and will come again to judge all
men, even up to Adam himself. You are aware, then,” I continued,
“that when the ark of the testimony was seized by the enemies of
Ashdod,2464
and a terrible and incurable malady had
broken out among them, they resolved to place it on a cart to which they
yoked cows that had recently calved, for the purpose of ascertaining by
trial whether or not they had been plagued by God’s power on
account of the ark, and if God wished it to be taken back to the place
from which it had been carried away. And when they had done this, the
cows, led by no man, went not to the place whence the ark had been taken,
but to the fields of a certain man whose name was Oshea, the same as his
whose name was altered to Jesus (Joshua), as has been previously
mentioned, who also led the people into the land and meted it out to
them: and when the cows had come into these fields they remained there,
showing to you thereby that they were guided by the name of power;2465
| 2465 Or, “by the power of
the name.” [1 Sam. vi. 14. Joshua in English
version.] | just as formerly the people who survived of those
that came out of Egypt, were guided into the land by him who had received
the name Jesus (Joshua), who before was called Oshea.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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