Scripture commentary · 17th century

Commentary on Joshua, Volume II

Name: Commentary on Joshua, Volume II
Author: Nicolaus Serarius, S.J.

Nicolaus Serarius, S.J. (1555–1609) · translated from the Latin of the 1610 Paris edition (Edmund Martin)

The author's name is also rendered Nicholas Serarius · Nicolas Serrarius · Nikolaus Serarius

The latter volume of Serarius's last labor, dedicated by his Jesuit college at Mainz to the same Archbishop-Elector as the first, and carrying Joshua from the walls of Jericho to his grave. It falls in two unequal parts. The wars come first: four questions on the wars as a whole — how many they were, whether the Israelites and the Canaanites each bore arms justly, and what the wars signify — and then the five Canaanite wars one by one. Jericho fills a hundred questions of its own, on the Jubilee trumpets and the order of the circuits, on what brought the walls down, and on the anathema laid upon the city, with the long question whether churches may lawfully hold treasuries. There follow Ai and the ceremony on Ebal and Gerizim, the Gibeonite fraud, and the war of the five kings, where Serarius halts for twenty questions on the sun and moon standing still — whether they can stand still naturally, whether evil angels or good could stay them, what the efficient causes were, and whether Joshua did rightly to command it. Then the northern war of Jabin, and the roll of the kings conquered on both sides of the Jordan. What came after the wars fills the rest: the land yet to be divided, the lot of Juda, of the two Josephine tribes, of Manasse, and of the seven remaining tribes; the cities of refuge and the cities of the Levites; the altar raised by Reuben, Gad, and half Manasse, and the quarrel it nearly caused; and at the last Joshua's two exhortations, the covenant at Shechem, and his death. Three hundred and thirty-two questions, each reachable from the volume's own Index of Questions. With it stands Serarius's alphabetical Index of Subjects, which he made for both tomes together: every one of its references is linked here, into this volume and back into the first. Paris, 1610. In English for the first time.

Companion volume: Commentary on Joshua, Volume I

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Contents

Front Matter

Of the Wars

Of the Wars: Caput VI

Of the Wars: Caput VII

Of the Wars: Caput VIII — The Second War, of Ai [Bellum II. Haiense]

Of the Wars: Caput IX — The Third War: The Gibeonite [War]

Of the Wars: Caput X

Of the Wars: Caput XI — The Sixth War: The Jabinite [War], or the Northern [War]

Of the Wars: Caput XII — [The Kings Conquered on Both Sides of the Jordan]

After the Wars: Caput XIII — [The Land Yet to Be Divided; the Inheritance of Reuben, Gad, and Half Manasseh]

After the Wars: Caput XIV — Concerning the division of the land, in detail [De terrae divisione speciatim]

After the Wars: Caput XV — The portion and dominion of the tribe of Juda [Iudae tribus portio ac ditio]

After the Wars: Caput XVI — Concerning the Portions of the two Josephine tribes, and specifically of the Ephraimite [portion] thereof [De Iosephinarum tribuum duarum Portionibus, & singulatim de ipsius Ephraimica]

Caput XVI — Concerning the Portions of the two Josephine tribes, and specifically of the Ephraimite [portion] thereof [De Iosephinarum tribuum duarum Portionibus, & singulatim de ipsius Ephraimica] (opening)

After the Wars: Caput XVII — Concerning the Portion of the tribe of Manasse [De Manassae tribus Portione]

Caput XVII — Concerning the Portion of the tribe of Manasse [De Manassae tribus Portione] (opening)

After the Wars: Caput XVIII — Concerning the second division of the land among the seven remaining tribes; and specifically of the Benjaminite portion [De secunda terrae in septem residuas tribus divisione: ac speciatim de Beniaminia portione]

After the Wars: Caput XIX — Concerning the portions of the remaining six tribes, and of Joshua himself [De reliquarum sex tribuum, ipsiusque Iosue portionibus]

Commentary on Joshua, Volume II

Front Matter

Of the Wars

Of the Wars: Caput VI

Of the Wars: Caput VII

Of the Wars: Caput VIII — The Second War, of Ai [Bellum II. Haiense]

Of the Wars: Caput IX — The Third War: The Gibeonite [War]

Of the Wars: Caput X

Of the Wars: Caput XI — The Sixth War: The Jabinite [War], or the Northern [War]

Of the Wars: Caput XII — [The Kings Conquered on Both Sides of the Jordan]

After the Wars: Caput XIII — [The Land Yet to Be Divided; the Inheritance of Reuben, Gad, and Half Manasseh]

After the Wars: Caput XIV — Concerning the division of the land, in detail [De terrae divisione speciatim]

After the Wars: Caput XV — The portion and dominion of the tribe of Juda [Iudae tribus portio ac ditio]

After the Wars: Caput XVI — Concerning the Portions of the two Josephine tribes, and specifically of the Ephraimite [portion] thereof [De Iosephinarum tribuum duarum Portionibus, & singulatim de ipsius Ephraimica]

After the Wars: Caput XVII — Concerning the Portion of the tribe of Manasse [De Manassae tribus Portione]

After the Wars: Caput XVIII — Concerning the second division of the land among the seven remaining tribes; and specifically of the Benjaminite portion [De secunda terrae in septem residuas tribus divisione: ac speciatim de Beniaminia portione]

After the Wars: Caput XIX — Concerning the portions of the remaining six tribes, and of Joshua himself [De reliquarum sex tribuum, ipsiusque Iosue portionibus]

After the Wars: Caput XX

After the Wars: Caput XXI

After the Wars: Caput XXII

After the Wars: Caput XXIII

After the Wars: Caput XXIV

Front Matter