The Lord did not will to give and subdue the whole promised land at once entirely, but [rather] to exercise them first more diligently in one part of it, and then, if they should do their duty well and should not slothfully guard its laws and ceremonies, to lead them out into broader estates and more ample provinces, as [was] set forth before. But because this part across the Jordan was now to be occupied, and to be subdued by arms, therefore both the Leader [Joshua] and “all the people” are bidden to cross — “all,” I say, except those few [paucos] whom Moses had excepted (Num. 32), who — in the seats given by [Moses] himself beyond the Jordan — should reside for so long a time while this war was being carried out. And the text itself signifies this order, when first it bids the Jordan to be crossed, and that land to be possessed; then it subjoins those four boundaries, which encircle and encompass much more of the land [than this first part]; so that from those narrows [angustiis] the total sum — if indeed they should stand by the posited conditions — the ensuing breadth [laxitas] would be understood [to follow].
(col. 276 [printed 277])