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Book III: Altera Libri Pars, De Iis, Qvæ Post Iordanis Transitvm Accidervnt

Altera Libri Pars, De Iis, Qvæ Post Iordanis Transitvm Accidervnt (opening)

[BOOK THREE. THE SECOND PART OF THE BOOK, ON THOSE THINGS WHICH HAPPENED AFTER THE CROSSING OF THE JORDAN.]

The [things] which, after the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, were done, this book hereafter hands down — beginning from verse 19 of the begun fourth chapter, as I have already noted above. For [there] were three remaining [matters] there which give the beginning to this second part of the book: namely, the laying-out [measuring] of the camp, the setting-up of the stones taken from the Jordan, and the cause of this. But the [things] which were done after these [are] either before the wars, at Gilgal (ch. 5); or the wars themselves, from ch. 6; or after the wars, from ch. 13. Our Possevino, moreover, notes in the Apparatus (Tome 1) that [one] Antonius wrote a “Triumph on the Entry into the Land of Promise.” But as yet I have had no opportunity of seeing that work.

(col. 471 — left column; printed “478”)

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Altera Libri Pars, De Iis, Qvæ Post Iordanis Transitvm Accidervnt (opening),” in Commentary on Joshua, Volume I, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-joshua-1/297-altera-libri-pars-de-iis-qv-post-iordanis-transitvm-acci/.

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