Josue — Chapter 24
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Verse 1
It is euident by this place, that Thare, and some other progenitours of Israel sometimes serued false Gods, from which they were reduced: but Abraham was euer preserued in true religion; and the whole familie of Thare was therefore persecuted in Chaldea, as S. Augustine sheweth li. 16. c. 13. de ciuit. Likewise Theodoret q. 18. in Iosue, and other both ancient and late writers teach the same.
Verse 30
In that no mention is made of mourning for Iosue, S. Hierome noteth a mysterie, and a special point of Christian doctrine: It seemeth to me (saith he Epist. de 42. Mans. mans. 33.) that in Marie prophecie is dead, in Moyses and Aaron, an end is put to the law and priesthood of the Iewes. For so much as they could neither passe into the land of promise, nor bring the belieuing people out of the wildernes of this world. And (Mans. 34.) Aaron (sayth he) was mourned (and so was Moyses) Iesus is not mourned; that is, in the law was descent into hel (called limbus); in the Ghospel is passage to Paradise.