Index of Questions

This index is generated from the translated question- and chapter-headings of this volume; each entry cites the original column number (which matches the (col. N …) markers running through the text). It stands in place of the original’s Latin Index Quaestionum (pp. 14–24 of the 1610 edition), a tabular list of the same questions.

DE IOSUE — THE FIRST BOOK (col. 1)

PROEM, in which [is set out] THE DIVISION AND METHOD OF THE WHOLE WORK

CAPUT I (col. 5)

On the Genealogy of Joshua

• QUESTION I — Whether the Ephraim whose sons are here recounted is the Patriarch? (col. 7)
• QUESTION II — Whether the first nine [named] are properly called sons of the Patriarch Ephraim? (col. 7)
• QUESTION III — Did these sons of Ephraim invade the Gethites? (col. 9)
• QUESTION IV — Beria — why was he so named by Ephraim? (col. 11)
• QUESTION V — Who [was] Sara, and whether [she was] properly the daughter of Ephraim, or of Beria? (col. 11)
• QUESTION VI — How many cities, and how, did the same Sara build? (col. 11)
• QUESTION VII — Whose sons, properly, [were] Rapha, Reseph, and the others? (col. 13)
• QUESTION VIII — How various [is] the name of Joshua’s father, and what does it signify? (col. 15)
• QUESTION IX — [The typological genealogy of Joshua.] (col. 15)

CAPUT II (col. 15)

On the Name of Joshua

• QUESTION I — What [is] Osee, and Joshua? (col. 17)
• QUESTION II — How was this change of name made? (col. 19)
• QUESTION III — By whom was this same change of name made? (col. 19)
• QUESTION IV — What, in general, [is] the cause of changing names? (col. 19)
• QUESTION V — Why specifically was the change of Joshua’s name made? (col. 25)
• QUESTION VI — When was this change of the name made? (col. 27)
• QUESTION VII — Whether Joshua is rightly called Auses by some? (col. 29)
• QUESTION VIII — Whether Iehova is the same, among the Hebrews, as Iesua? (col. 29)
• QUESTION IX — Whether Iehosua is rightly called Iosue? (col. 29)
• QUESTION X — Whether Iosue and Iesus are one and the same name? (col. 29)
• QUESTION XI — How, out of the Hebrew, was the name Jesus made? (col. 33)
• QUESTION XII — Whether this name Jesus is the highest, above every name? (col. 33)
• QUESTION XIII — How efficacious [is] this same most august name of Jesus? (col. 37)
• QUESTION XIV — In what way [is] this same name of Jesus so efficacious? (col. 41)
• QUESTION XV — Whether this name is to be venerated? (col. 47)
• QUESTION XVI — How [the name is to be venerated / Iosue] (col. 49)
• QUESTION XVII — How excellent, above the rest, this name is (col. 49)
• QUESTION XVIII — Whether anyone can be called Jesus or Joshua? (col. 51)
• QUESTION XIX — Whether at least anything can be denominated from this name — for example’s sake, Iesuanus, Iesuinus, or Iesuita [Jesuit]? (col. 53)

CAPUT III (col. 61)

On Joshua’s deeds; and specifically now on the first of those deeds, which is the Amalekite war.

• QUESTION I — Who is Amalek? (col. 61)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* Who was the King of the Amalekites then? And how much time [had passed] from the Egyptian exodus? (col. 63)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* What was the place of this war? (col. 63)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* What was the cause of that same war? (col. 63)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* How was the war waged? And with what arms? (col. 65)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* Why was Joshua appointed leader in this war? (col. 65)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* Why was Joshua bidden by Moses to choose the men [himself]? (col. 65)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* Which hill [was it] onto which Moses ascended? (col. 67)
• QUESTION IX — (marg.)* Why did Moses ascend thither? (col. 67)
• QUESTION X — (marg.)* Who ascended with Moses — who [were they]? and especially [who was] Hur? (col. 67)
• QUESTION XI — (marg.)* What did Moses do on that top [of the hill]? (col. 69)
• QUESTION XII — (marg.)* What did Aaron and Hur do with Moses? (col. 71)
• QUESTION XIII — (marg.)* How, meanwhile, was Joshua fighting? (col. 71)
• QUESTION XIV — (marg.)* Why, when Moses’s hands were lifted up, did the Israelites conquer; [and] when [they were] lowered, were [they] conquered? (col. 73)
• QUESTION XV — (marg.)* What did Aaron and Hur signify? (col. 77)
• QUESTION XVI — (marg.)* The stone placed under Moses — of what thing [is it] a sign? (col. 77)
• QUESTION XVII — (marg.)* What was the outcome of the battle? (col. 79)
• QUESTION XVIII — (marg.)* What things followed the victory? (col. 81)
• QUESTION XIX — (marg.)* What things did the Lord say after the victory? And about the first of them. (col. 81)
• QUESTION XX — (marg.)* What [was] the second of those things which the Lord said after the victory? (col. 83)
• QUESTION XXI — (marg.)* What [was] the third of those same sayings of the Lord? (col. 83)
• QUESTION XXII — (marg.)* What things did Moses do after the victory? And about the first of them. (col. 83)
• QUESTION XXIII — (marg.)* Of those things which Moses did after the victory, which [was] the second? (col. 85)
• QUESTION XXV — (marg.)* What is the meaning of this third deed, according to the Greeks, the Hebrews, and the Latins? (col. 87)
• QUESTION XXVI — (marg.)* Is Scaliger’s version and explanation correct? (col. 89)
• QUESTION XXVII — (marg.)* When were these [commands] concerning the destruction of the Amalekites carried into execution? (col. 91)
• QUESTION XXVIII — (marg.)* Why was so great a punishment exacted only of the Amalekites? (col. 93)
• QUESTION XXIX — (marg.)* Why did God defer the same punishments of the Amalekites to so long a time afterward? (col. 97)
• QUESTION XXX — (marg.)* What is signified by these ruins of the Amalekites? (col. 97)

CAPUT IV (col. 99)

Joshua’s second deed: namely, his ascent of Mount Sinai with Moses.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* Why did Moses have a minister, and whether more [than one]? (col. 101)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* In what did Joshua minister to Moses? (col. 101)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* Why was this — that Joshua was Moses’s minister — committed to writing? (e.g. Exod. 24; Deut. 1, v. 38; Num. 11, v. 28) (col. 103)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* To what [mountain] did Joshua go with Moses? (col. 105)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* Why did Moses lead him [Joshua] with him onto the mountain? (col. 109)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* When did the same Joshua ascend the mountain? (col. 109)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* What number of day from the Egyptian departure was it, on which the arrival at Sinai [took place]? (col. 113)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* On what day was that [command] of Exod. 19, v. 11, spoken — “let them be ready against the third day”? (col. 113)
• QUESTION IX — (marg.)* On what day, both of the third month and from the Egyptian exodus, was the Law given? (col. 113)
• QUESTION X — (marg.)* On what day was the Law confirmed? (col. 115)
• QUESTION XI — (marg.)* Was the Jewish Pentecost [instituted] for the memory of the Law’s giving? (col. 115)
• QUESTION XII — (marg.)* Does our Pentecost agree, as to time, with the Jewish? (col. 117)
• QUESTION XIV — (marg.)* How long did Joshua remain on Mount Sinai? (col. 119)
• QUESTION XV — (marg.)* Was Joshua together with Moses in the highest part of the mountain, and the noblest part of the cloud? (col. 121)
• QUESTION XVI — (marg.)* In so many days on the mountain, what did Joshua do? (col. 123)
• QUESTION XVII — (marg.)* Did Joshua make use of food and drink on the mountain? (col. 123)
• QUESTION XVIII — (marg.)* What was Joshua’s food and drink on the mountain? (col. 123)

CAPUT V (col. 125)

Joshua’s descent from Mount Sinai.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* Did Joshua hear when the Lord told Moses the people had sinned? (col. 125)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* Whether [Joshua helped] in carrying the tables of the Decalogue? (col. 125)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* Whether Joshua rightly said he heard the howl of battle? (col. 127)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* To Joshua saying those things, what [replied] Moses? (col. 127)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* Which of the two heard the shouts of the reveling Israelites sooner — Moses or Joshua? (col. 129)

CAPUT VI (col. 129)

Joshua’s studies and deeds after the descent from Mount Sinai, in the same first year of the Egyptian departure.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* How was Joshua at this time a “boy” [puer]? (col. 129)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* What kind was that tabernacle from which Joshua did not depart? (col. 131)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* What did Joshua do in that tabernacle? (col. 133)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* How, and why, did Joshua not depart from that tabernacle? (col. 135)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* How long did Joshua keep this manner of life and constancy in that tabernacle? (col. 135)

CAPUT VII (col. 137)

Joshua’s zeal on behalf of his Lord.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* Was the boy [puer] who told Moses that Eldad and Medad were prophesying — Joshua? or at least some one of Moses’s ministers? (col. 137)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* How is Joshua said to be “chosen out of many”? (col. 137)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* What, on hearing that boy, did Joshua say? (col. 139)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* For what cause did Joshua wish to forbid Eldad and Medad? (col. 139)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* Was it true that Joshua showed emulation for Moses’s glory? (col. 141)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* Was Joshua’s emulation for Moses a good one? (col. 141)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* Was the emulation of the disciples of John and of Christ the Lord better than this of Joshua? (col. 143)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* Why did Joshua not ask that the rest [the seventy] also be forbidden to prophesy? (col. 145)
• QUESTION IX — (marg.)* What may one be allowed to learn from this zeal of Joshua for Moses? (col. 145)
• QUESTION X — (marg.)* Was Joshua himself in the number of those seventy? (col. 147)

CAPUT VIII (col. 149)

Joshua’s sending to explore the land, [his] return, and other deeds.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* When the explorers were sent, was Joshua one of the princes of the people? (col. 151)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* Did two men carry that cluster on a pole, and who [were they]? (col. 155)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* Ought Joshua to have opposed the explorers’ first speech? (col. 157)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* Ought Joshua to have opposed the same explorers’ second or third speech? (col. 159)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* Did Joshua stand against these same querulous, lying, and seditious speeches of the explorers? (col. 161)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* Why did Joshua and Caleb rend their garments, while Moses and Aaron fell down [prostrate]? (col. 165)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* What [did] Joshua and Caleb [say] in their speech to the people? (col. 167)
• QUESTION IX — (marg.)* Did the people wish to stone Joshua and Caleb? (col. 167)
• QUESTION X — (marg.)* How did the Lord approve and commend the zeal and constancy of Joshua and Caleb in that murmuring? (col. 169)
• QUESTION XI — (marg.)* In this sedition, which of the two behaved better and more bravely — Joshua or Caleb? (col. 171)
• QUESTION XII — (marg.)* What did Joshua signify in this exploration, and the murmuring that followed? (col. 171)

CAPUT IX (col. 175)

On the election, and the inauguration, of Joshua as ruler and prince of the people. On the election, and the inauguration, of Joshua as ruler and prince of the people.

• QUESTION II — (marg.)* What did Moses, about to die, ask of the Lord? (col. 179)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* Why is Moses, about to die, so anxious about a successor? (col. 181)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* Whom did Moses ask for as successor? (col. 181)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* What is the best way of constituting a successor? (col. 185)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* Why does Moses shudder to leave the people without a Prince? (col. 187)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* In the designation of a successor, how should Princes imitate Moses? (col. 189)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* Whom did God name as successor to Moses, praying so earnestly? (col. 189)
• QUESTION IX — (marg.)* In the divine naming of a successor, did Moses grieve or rejoice? (col. 191)
• QUESTION X — (marg.)* To the naming of the successor, what did the Lord add? (col. 193)
• QUESTION XI — (marg.)* The imposition of hands — how manifold, and which [kind is] here? (col. 193)
• QUESTION XII — (marg.)* Where, and how, was this imposition of hands made? (col. 193)
• QUESTION XIII — (marg.)* By what effect was this same imposition of hands made? (col. 195)
• QUESTION XIV — (marg.)* Was Joshua at once, with the imposition of hands, filled with that spirit? (col. 195)
• QUESTION XV — (marg.)* [Did Moses act] as a political prince, or as an Ecclesiastic or Prophet, [when] the same imposition of hands was made? (col. 197)
• QUESTION XVI — (marg.)* How was Joshua set before the Pontiff and the people? (col. 197)
• QUESTION XVII — (marg.)* Which was done first — the imposition of hands, or this setting [him] before all? (col. 197)
• QUESTION XVIII — (marg.)* What did Moses command Joshua, now consecrated? and why? (col. 197)
• QUESTION XIX — (marg.)* Ought Moses to have given of his own glory to the succeeding Joshua? (col. 199)
• QUESTION XX — (marg.)* How ought Moses to give Joshua of his own glory? (col. 199)
• QUESTION XXI — (marg.)* How many actions of the created prince are here handed down? (col. 201)
• QUESTION XXII — (marg.)* How ought Joshua to stand before the Pontiff, and himself inquire? (col. 203)
• QUESTION XXIII — (marg.)* What, at least universally and confusedly, were the Urim? (col. 203)
• QUESTION XXIV — (marg.)* How was that [ornament], in which the Urim were, wont to be called? (col. 205)
• QUESTION XXV — (marg.)* How were the Urim otherwise called? (col. 207)
• QUESTION XXVI — (marg.)* More distinctly, what were the Urim and Thummim? (col. 207)
• QUESTION XXVII — (marg.)* What was the use of the same Urim and Thummim, and what the cause of the names? *[the printed marginal numeral is worn — it reads like “XXV”; but by the run of the questions this is the 27th.] (col. 209)
• QUESTION XXVIII — (marg.)* What is the manner of inquiring through Urim and Thummim? and first, among the Priests? *[the printed marginal numeral reads “XXVI”; but by the run of the questions this is the 28th — the printed marginal Q-numbers lag by two from col 210 on.] (col. 211)
• QUESTION XXIX — (marg.)* What is the manner of inquiring, for those interrogating the priest? *[printed marginal numeral “XXVII”; = XXIX by the run of the questions.] (col. 213)
• QUESTION XXX — (marg.)* What is the manner of responding through Urim and Thummim? and first, according to Josephus? *[printed marginal numeral “XXVIII” (set oddly as “XXV.III”); = XXX by the run of the questions.] (col. 215)
• QUESTION XXXI — (marg.)* What manners of responding through the same Urim and Thummim do other authors hand down? *[printed marginal numeral “XXIX”; = XXXI by the run of the questions.] (col. 221)
• QUESTION XXXII — (marg.)* What is the fixed opinion, at last, about the same manner of responding? *[printed marginal numeral “XXX”; = XXXII by the run of the questions.] (col. 223)
• QUESTION XXXIII — (marg.)* About what matters did the Lord respond through Urim and Thummim? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXI”; = XXXIII by the run of the questions.] (col. 225)
• QUESTION XXXIV — (marg.)* How ought Joshua to go out and to go in at the Priest’s word? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXII”; = XXXIV by the run of the questions.] (col. 227)
• QUESTION XXXV — (marg.)* Was it Joshua alone who had to obey the Priest’s command? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXIII”; = XXXV by the run of the questions.] (col. 229)
• QUESTION XXXVI — (marg.)* Did Joshua ever use Urim and Thummim? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXIV”; = XXXVI by the run of the questions.] (col. 229)
• QUESTION XXXVII — (marg.)* What things are gathered from what has been said? and first, what [is it] to interrogate concerning, or in, the judgment of Urim, and what [is] the certitude of these? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXV”; = XXXVII by the run of the questions.] (col. 229)
• QUESTION XXXVIII — (marg.)* What, secondly, is gathered from these things said? *[printed marginal numeral “XXXVI”; = XXXVIII by the run of the questions.] (col. 229)
• QUESTION XXXIX — (marg.)* What is gathered from what has been said, thirdly? *[printed marginal numeral “Q. XXXVII”; = XXXIX by the run of the questions.] (col. 233)
• QUESTION XL — (marg.)* What, fourthly, is to be gathered from the [things] which have thus far been disputed? *[printed marginal numeral “Q. XXXVIII”; = XL by the run of the questions.] (col. 233)
• QUESTION XLI — (marg.)* What is to be noted in this election of the successor [Joshua, son of Nun]? *[printed marginal numeral “Q. XXXIX”; = XLI by the run of the questions; marginal partly abraded — ”…& whether the people’s [consent was needful].”] (col. 233)
• QUESTION XLII — (marg.)* What [did] Eleazar the Pontiff [do] in the same election? *[printed marginal numeral “Q. XL”; = XLII by the run of the questions.] (col. 235)

CAPUT X (col. 235)

On the remaining deeds of Joshua, up to after Moses’s death.

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* Was Joshua the leader in the Midianite war? *[Caput X — question-numbering restarts.] (col. 235)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* Whether Joshua the successor received the Cabala [oral tradition] from Moses? *[Caput X, quest. II — marginals accurate here.] (col. 237)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* Whether now for the first time the Lord speaks to Joshua, and why? *[Caput X, quest. III.] (col. 243)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* How is Joshua said, together with Moses now about to die, both to have written and to have sung the canticle? *[Caput X, quest. IV.] (col. 243)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* Whether Joshua was present at Moses’s death? *[Caput X, quest. V.] (col. 243)
• QUESTION VI — (marg.)* Whether Joshua was present at the burial of the same Moses? *[Caput X, quest. VI.] (col. 245)
• QUESTION VII — (marg.)* Whether Joshua wrote the last chapter of Deuteronomy, or at least a certain part of it? *[Caput X, quest. VII.] (col. 245)
• QUESTION VIII — (marg.)* What was signified by this — that Joshua succeeded Moses? *[Caput X, quest. VIII — the final question of Book I.] (col. 247)

LIBER SECVNDVS (col. 249)

which explains the very Book of Joshua.

• PROLEGOMENA — EIGHT. (col. 249) Prolegomenon I
• (subheading)* What is the argument [subject-matter] of the book of Joshua? (col. 249) Prolegomenon II
• (subheading)* Who is the Author of the same book? (col. 249) Prolegomenon III
• (subheading)* What is the authority of the same book? (col. 251) Prolegomenon IV
• (subheading)* What is the order [position] of the same book relative to the other biblical books? (col. 251) Prolegomenon V
• (subheading)* Why is the same book entitled “Joshua”? (col. 253) Prolegomenon VI
• (subheading)* What is the utility of the same book? (col. 253) Prolegomenon VII
• (subheading)* Who are the interpreters [commentators] of the same book? (col. 253) Prolegomenon VIII
• (subheading)* What is the division of the whole book? (col. 255)

THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK [OF JOSHUA] (col. 257)

CHAPTER ONE COMMENTARY

• QUESTION I — (marg.)* When, how, and now for which turn [time] did the Lord speak to Joshua? *[Caput I, quest. I.] (col. 259)
• QUESTION II — (marg.)* How is Moses called “servant of the Lord”? *[Caput I, quest. II.] (col. 259)
• QUESTION III — (marg.)* Why is Moses so often affected with [given] this title, “servant of GOD”? *[Caput I, quest. III.] (col. 261)
• QUESTION IV — (marg.)* Whether, because dead Moses is called “servant of God,” it is gathered [that] he was saved? *[Caput I, quest. IV; the printed marginal reads “Q. VI” — a transposition of “IV.”] (col. 265)
• QUESTION V — (marg.)* What is the land into which the Lord bids Joshua, and the Israelite people, cross? *[Caput I, quest. V.] (col. 265)
• (marg.)* Whether that land is circumscribed by any [particular] boundaries? *[Caput I, quest. VI.] (col. 267)
• (marg.)* What are the boundaries of that same [land]? *[Caput I, quest. VII.] (col. 267)
• (marg.)* By which Lebanon is the boundary here constituted? *[the third of the sub-inquiries] (col. 269)
• (marg.)* Is the eastern boundary of this land truly [the Euphrates]? *[a sub-inquiry] (col. 269)
• (marg.)* In what manner was this land given by God to the Israelites? *[Caput I, quest. VIII.] (col. 271)
• (marg.)* Whether this land was ever afterwards possessed by the Israelites? *[Caput I, quest. IX.] (col. 273)
• (marg.)* If so great a land was promised, why is it commanded that Joshua — and all the people — cross the Jordan? *[Caput I, quest. X.] (col. 275)
• (marg.)* Why does the Lord so often confirm Joshua himself? *[Caput I, quest. XI.] (col. 275)
• (marg.)* In what manner does the Lord confirm the same Joshua? *[Caput I, quest. XII.] (col. 277)

THE SECOND PART OF THE CHAPTER (col. 293)

In which [is treated] the preparation of the people.

• (marg.)* What was this preparation? *[Caput I, Second Part, quest. I.] (col. 295)
• (marg.)* Why was this preparation commanded? *[Caput I, Second Part, quest. II.] (col. 295)
• (marg.)* Through whom was this same preparation commanded? *[Caput I, Second Part, quest. III.] (col. 297)
• (marg.)* When was this same preparation commanded? *[Caput I, Second Part, quest. IV.] (col. 299)
• (marg.)* What is to be learned from this preparation? *[Caput I, Second Part, quest. V.] (col. 301)

THE SECOND PREPARATION (col. 303)

Of a certain part of the people.

• (marg.)* Why does Joshua warn these tribes specially? *[Caput I, quest. I of the second preparation.] (col. 303)
• (marg.)* Of what did Joshua warn the same tribes? *[Caput I, quest. II of the second preparation — marginal at foot of col. 304.] (col. 303)
• (marg.)* What weight have these responses given to Joshua? *[Caput I, second preparation, quest. V.III — marginal at foot of col. 310.] (col. 309)
• (marg.)* By whom was this response given to Joshua? *[Caput I, second preparation, quest. VI.] (col. 313)
• (marg.)* Why did Joshua warn [them] of such things? *[Caput I, second preparation, quest. V.] (col. 313)
• (marg.)* What can be learned from the response of the three tribes? *[Caput I, second preparation, quest. VI — printed marginal (the numbering of this section’s marginals is erratic/repeating).] (col. 315)

CAPVT II (col. 317)

COMMENTARIVS (col. 319)

• (marg.)* To what [end], and whether rightly, were the spies sent by Joshua? *[Caput II, quest. I.] (col. 319)
• (marg.)* How many were these spies? *[Caput II, quest. II.] (col. 321)
• (marg.)* Who, then, were these same spies? *[Caput II, quest. III.] (col. 321)
• (marg.)* When were the spies sent? *[Caput II, quest. V.] (col. 327)
• (marg.)* In what manner were the spies sent? *[Caput II, quest. VI.] (col. 329)
• (marg.)* What is to be learned from this mission? *[Caput II, quest. VII.] (col. 331)

ALTERA CAPITIS PARS (col. 333)

Teaching what befell the spies in that exploration.

• (marg.)* How were the spies able to reach Jericho? *[Caput II, second part, quest. I.] (col. 333)
• (marg.)* Rahab — what [is] the name? *[Caput II, second part, quest. II.] (col. 333)
• (marg.)* Was Rahab a harlot? *[Caput II, second part, quest. III.] (col. 335)
• (marg.)* When the spies came, was Rahab still exercising harlotry? *[Caput II, quest. IV.] (col. 341)
• (marg.)* Of what kind was this same Rahab a harlot — whether at once a caupona-woman, a common [prostitute], [and] an idolatress? *[Caput II, quest. V.] (col. 343)
• (marg.)* Of how many years [old] was Rahab then? *[Caput II, quest. VI.] (col. 345)
• (marg.)* When did they come, and did the spies lodge overnight in Rahab’s house? *[Caput II, quest. VII.] (col. 345)
• (marg.)* Whether the spies surveyed all [those things] which Josephus says? *[Caput II, quest. VIII.] (col. 347)
• (marg.)* About the same spies, what [did] the Jericho[ite] King and his guards [do]? *[Caput II, quest. IX.] (col. 347)
• (marg.)* Where, when, and how did Rahab hide the spies? *[Caput II, quest. X.] (col. 349)
• (marg.)* Did Rahab lie? *[Caput II, quest. XI.] (col. 351)
• (marg.)* Whether, in order that the spies be preserved, Rahab necessarily lied *[Caput II, quest. XIII — the printed marginal numeral is “Q. XII,” a misprint; this is the thirteenth question, between quest. XII above and quest. XIV below] (col. 353)
• (marg.)* Whether Rahab lied more gravely than the midwives of Exodus ch. 1 *[Caput II, quest. XIV] (col. 353)
• (marg.)* Did Rahab betray [her] fatherland? *[Caput II, quest. XV] (col. 355)
• (marg.)* Whether Rahab could, without sin, have indicated and handed over the spies *[Caput II, quest. XVI] (col. 355)
• (marg.)* Whether the knowledge which was in Rahab concerning the God of the Israelites was natural or supernatural *[Caput II, quest. XVII] (col. 357)
• (marg.)* What [was] the nature of the terror which had rushed upon the Jerichoites *[Caput II, quest. XVIII] (col. 359)
• (marg.)* What did Rahab seek from the spies *[Caput II, quest. XIX] (col. 361)
• (marg.)* Whether the spies granted Rahab’s demands, and how *[Caput II, quest. XX] (col. 363)
• (marg.)* How the spies escaped from the shut-up city of Jericho *[Caput II, quest. XXI] (col. 365)
• (marg.)* How could Rahab let them down from the city wall *[Caput II, quest. XXII] (col. 369)
• (marg.)* By what [way] did the spies go straight from Jericho, and when did they return [to Joshua] *[Caput II, quest. XXIII] (col. 369)
• (marg.)* In what order were all these [things] said and done *[Caput II, quest. XXIV] (col. 371)
• (marg.)* In what language did Rahab and the spies speak with one another *[Caput II, quest. XXV] (col. 373)
• (marg.)* In the whole three-day hiding, what did the spies eat and do *[Caput II, quest. XXVI] (col. 377)
• (marg.)* In that same three-day period, and thenceforward until the city was captured, what did Rahab do *[Caput II, quest. XXVII] (col. 377) TERTIA CAPITIS PARS — The Third Part of the Chapter
• (marg.)* What lessons of life do the spies give *[Third part of Caput II, quest. I] (col. 379)
• (marg.)* What lessons does Rahab likewise give *[Third part of Caput II, quest. II] (col. 383)
• QVAESTIO III — What allegory is in the same Rahab *[Third part of Caput II, quest. III] (col. 385)
• QVAESTIO IV — Could Rahab in any way be compared with the Blessed Virgin *[Third part of Caput II, quest. IV] (col. 387) CAPVT III IORDANIS TRANSITVS — The Crossing of the Jordan
• QVAESTIO I — When did the Israelites come to the bank of the Jordan *[Caput III, quest. I] (col. 389)
• QVAESTIO II — How long did the Israelites stop on that bank of the Jordan *[Caput III, quest. II] (col. 391)
• QVAESTIO III — What [was] the latter preparation for the imminent crossing of the Jordan *[Caput III, quest. III] (col. 393)
• QVAESTIO IV — Who [were] the heralds, and what [about] the time of the advance itself *[Caput III, quest. IV] (col. 395)
• QVAESTIO V — About the manner of the advance, [do] the same heralds [say] anything? *[Caput III, quest. V] (col. 397)
• QVAESTIO VI — Whether the appointed distance between the people and the ark is to be taken geometrically, or ethically [morally] *[Caput III, quest. VI] (col. 397)
• QVAESTIO VII — Whether in the Hebrew [the reading] is that the interval must be between the people and several arks *[Caput III, quest. VII] (col. 399)
• QVAESTIO VIII — What [were] the causes, that the manner of advancing, as expounded, should be prescribed *[Caput III, quest. VIII] (col. 399)
• QVAESTIO IX — What [did] the leader Joshua [say] to the people? *[Caput III, quest. IX] (col. 401)
• QVAESTIO X — What [was] the cause of the sanctification proclaimed by Joshua? *[Caput III, quest. X] (col. 403)
• QVAESTIO XI — What [did] Joshua [say] to the priests? and whether he could command them? *[Caput III, quest. XI] (col. 405)
• QVAESTIO XII — What [did] the Lord [say] to Joshua? *[Caput III, quest. XII] (col. 407)
• QVAESTIO XIII — What [did] the Lord [say] to the same Joshua, about the priests? *[Caput III, quest. XIII] (col. 409)
• QVAESTIO XIV — What again [did] Joshua [say] to the people? *[Caput III, quest. XIV] (col. 409)
• QVAESTIO XV — About the twelve men, and the dividing of the Jordan, what further [did] Joshua [say]? *[Caput III, quest. XV] (col. 413) ALTERA CAPITIS PARS — The Second Part of the Chapter
• QVAESTIO I — How many, and which, priests carried the ark? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. I] (col. 415)
• QVAESTIO II — In what manner did the same priests carry that ark? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. II] (col. 417)
• QVAESTIO III — About the Jordan. Whence is it derived [traced]? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. III] (col. 417)
• QVAESTIO IV — How far does the Jordan flow, and where does it end? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. IV] (col. 419)
• QVAESTIO V — How wide, and [how] deep, [is] the Jordan? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. V] (col. 421)
• QVAESTIO VI — In what manner was the Jordan divided? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. VI] (col. 427)
• QVAESTIO VII — By what efficient cause was the Jordan divided? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. VII] (col. 427)
• QVAESTIO VIII — From that efficient cause, what came to be, by which the Jordan was divided? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. VIII] (col. 431)
• QVAESTIO IX — The Jordan being divided, in what manner did that part of the waters behave, which [was] toward the source and the North? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. IX] (col. 433)
• QVAESTIO X — In what manner did the other part of the waters, [that] toward the South, behave? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. X] (col. 435)
• QVAESTIO XI — Was the bottom of the divided Jordan dried up? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. XI] (col. 439)
• QVAESTIO XII — At what place did the Israelites cross the Jordan? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. XII] (col. 439)
• QVAESTIO XII (bis) — How much time did the Israelites consume in crossing that same Jordan? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS — so printed, a duplicate “XII”; the second Q XII] (col. 441) *CAPVT IV [Joshua ch. 4 — the twelve memorial stones] COMMENTARIVS
• QVAESTIO I — About the 12 men taking up the 12 stones from the Jordan: were they now chosen for the first time? and from which tribes? *[Caput IV, quest. I] (col. 445)
• QVAESTIO II — How great, and of what sort, [were] those 12 stones? *[Caput IV, quest. II] (col. 445)
• QVAESTIO III — Whence, by what author, by whom, and why were those 12 stones taken up, and where are they today? *[Caput IV, quest. III] (col. 447)
• QVAESTIO IV — Where were the OTHER 12 stones set up in the Jordan, and were they brought into it from one or the other bank? *[Caput IV, quest. IV] (col. 447)
• QVAESTIO V — How were those same 12 stones set up in the Jordan? *[Caput IV, quest. V] (col. 447)
• QVAESTIO VI — By whom were these other 12 stones erected, and how long did they so remain? *[Caput IV, quest. VI] (col. 449)
• QVAESTIO VII — Are these the stones out of which St John the Baptist said the sons of Abraham could be raised up? *[Caput IV, quest. VII] (col. 451)
• QVAESTIO VIII — How did the priests, holding the ark, stand in the middle of the Jordan? *[Caput IV, quest. VIII] (col. 451)
• QVAESTIO IX — How long did those same priests stand in the same Jordan? *[Caput IV, quest. IX] (col. 453)

ALTERA CAPITIS PARS *[THE SECOND PART OF THE CHAPTER] (col. 453)

On the Jordan’s return to its former flow.

• QVAESTIO I — How was the Jordan poured back into its former channel? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. I] (col. 453)
• QVAESTIO II — In what year, month, [and] day did this marvellous crossing of the Israelites through the Jordan happen? *[ALTERA CAPITIS PARS, quest. II] (col. 455)

TERTIA PARS CAPITIS *[THE THIRD PART OF THE CHAPTER] (col. 457)

• QVAESTIO I — What does the crossing through the Jordan signify? *[TERTIA PARS CAPITIS, quest. I] (col. 457)
• QVAESTIO II — What more does the same crossing signify? *[TERTIA PARS CAPITIS, quest. II] (col. 461)
• QVAESTIO III — What other things are to be noted in the same crossing? *[TERTIA PARS CAPITIS, quest. III] (col. 463)
• QVAESTIO IV — How is this dividing of the Jordan to be compared with [that of] the Gyndes, the Euphrates, the Pamphylian [sea], and the Red Sea — and with other divisions of the same Jordan too? *[TERTIA PARS CAPITIS, quest. IV] (col. 467)

LIBER TERTIVS. (col. 471)

ALTERA LIBRI PARS, DE IIS, QVÆ POST IORDANIS TRANSITVM ACCIDERVNT.

• QVAESTIO I — Why were there no enemies on the Canaan bank of the Jordan? (col. 471)
• QVAESTIO II — Whether, after the crossing of the Jordan, they halted on its bank, and greeted the land? (col. 471)
• QVAESTIO III — Whether they greeted God himself? (col. 475)
• QVAESTIO IV — How did they depart from the very bank of the crossing now made, and where did the Israelites pitch camp? (col. 475)
• QVAESTIO V — What things bearing on the practical use of the spiritual life can be gathered from these? (col. 477)
• QVAESTIO VI — When, where, and how were the stones which had been taken up from the Jordan set in place? (col. 479)
• QVAESTIO VII — To what end were the same stones set up? (col. 483)
• QVAESTIO VIII — Whether it was lawful for Joshua to set up those stones? (col. 485)
• QVAESTIO IX — What did the same stones signify? (col. 487)

ALTERA LIBRI PARS, (col. 493)

DE IIS, QVÆ POST IORDANIS TRANSITVM CONTIGERVNT.

• I. God — [the things] before the wars. (col. 493) CAPVT V.

COMMENTARY. (col. 495)

• QVAESTIO I — In what sense is [it] here called the “second circumcision”? (col. 497)
• QVAESTIO II — Whether circumcision was intermitted for the whole forty years in the wilderness? (col. 499)
• QVAESTIO III — What was the cause of that intermission? (col. 501)
• QVAESTIO IV — Why were the Israelites circumcised at once after the crossing of the Jordan? (col. 507)
• QVAESTIO V — Who were circumcised in that iterated circumcision? (col. 509)
• QVAESTIO VI — How many were circumcised? (col. 513)
• QVAESTIO VII — By whom were so many circumcised? (col. 513)
• QVAESTIO VIII — With what instrument were they circumcised? Namely, whether knives of stone? (col. 513)
• QVAESTIO IX — When were they circumcised? (col. 517)
• QVAESTIO X — In what place were the Israelites then circumcised? (col. 517)
• QVAESTIO XI — What reproach of Egypt did the Lord now take away from the Israelites? (col. 519)
• QVAESTIO XII — After the wound of circumcision, when did the circumcised recover [heal]? (col. 523)
• QVAESTIO XIII — On which day of the circumcision do the circumcised feel more pain? And why? (col. 525)
• QVAESTIO XIV — How, mystically, is [this] made a “second circumcision”? (col. 527)
• QVAESTIO XV — What other things pertain mystically to the iterated circumcision? (col. 529) On the Passover Celebrated at Gilgal.
• QVAESTIO XVI — Whence [is] “Pascha,” what does [it] signify, and how is [it] both translated and written? (col. 531)
• QVAESTIO XVII — What is it “to make [do] the phase, or pascha”? (col. 537)
• QVAESTIO XVIII — For what end was the pascha instituted? (col. 537)
• QVAESTIO XIX — What was the material of the Passover, or what animal was immolated? (col. 539)
• QVAESTIO XX — How ought the paschal animal, or lamb, to have been affected [qualified]? (col. 541)
• QVAESTIO XXI [printed “XII”] — Why did the Lord will the paschal animal to be of such a kind? (col. 543)
• QVAESTIO XXII — What is the formal and efficient cause of the same Passover? (col. 545)
• QVAESTIO XXIII — Who ate the Passover? (col. 549)
• QVAESTIO XXIV — What is the manner of eating the Passover? (col. 551)
• QVAESTIO XXV — What was the place of the Passover? (col. 563)
• QVAESTIO XXVI — On the time of the Passover; and first, what was its year? (col. 567)
• QVAESTIO XXVII — In what month was the Passover to be kept? (col. 569)
• QVAESTIO XXVIII — Was it lawful to keep the Passover in some other month? (col. 571)
• QVAESTIO XXIX — What was the day for keeping the Passover? (col. 577)
• QVAESTIO XXX — Was the Passover ever transferred to some other day? (col. 583)
• QVAESTIO XXXI — At what hour was the Passover to be immolated and eaten? (col. 593)
• QVAESTIO XXXII — As what number is this Passover — celebrated by Joshua and the Jews — to be reckoned? (col. 599)
• QVAESTIO XXXIII — Whether after this third Passover [its celebration] both was, and always would be, perpetuated? (col. 599)
• QVAESTIO XXXIV — Which [are] the unleavened breads, of which the text [speaks] (v. 11)? (col. 603)
• QVAESTIO XXXV — When did the manna cease? (col. 619)
• QVAESTIO XXXVI — Why did the manna then cease? (col. 621)
• QVAESTIO XXXVII — Whether after this time the manna never fell [again]? (col. 623)
• QVAESTIO XXXVIII — What does the paschal lamb signify? (col. 623)
• QVAESTIO XXXIX — How do the Jews keep [act] their Passover today? (col. 627)

De apparitione ipsi Iosuae facta (col. 629)

• QVAESTIO XL — Who appeared to Joshua — who was he? (col. 631)
• QVAESTIO XLI. — Which Angel [was it] that appeared to Joshua? Michael, or Gabriel? (col. 639)
• QVAESTIO XLII. — Who [is] the Michael who appeared to Joshua? Is [he] Christ the Lord himself? (col. 639)
• QVAESTIO XLIII. — How may reply be made to the reasons which prove Michael [to be] Christ alone, and reasons be opposed to reasons? (col. 643)
• QVAESTIO XLIV. — Whether by other reasons also [it] can be proved that S. Michael is not Christ the Lord? (col. 647)
• QVAESTIO XLV. — Since S. Michael is not Christ, can [he] at least be reckoned the supreme of all the Angels? (col. 657)
• QUESTION XLVI — When, & how, & in what form did S. Michael appear to Joshua? (col. 675)
• QUESTION XLVII — Why did S. Michael appear to Joshua so armed, & martial [Martius]? (col. 677)
• QUESTION XLVII [printed number repeated] — Where was Joshua then? (col. 681)
• QUESTION XLVIII — What was Joshua doing there then? (col. 681)
• QUESTION XLIX [printed “LXIX”] — What did Joshua do, [and] say, when the Angel appeared? (col. 683)
• QVAESTIO L. — What did the Angel say to Joshua himself? (col. 701)