Index of Questions — Commentary on Joshua, Volume II

This index is generated from the translated question- and chapter-headings of this volume (Tomus Posterior); each entry cites the original printed column number of the page on which the heading falls. It stands in place of the original’s Latin Index Quaestionum, a tabular list of the same questions.

ON THE WARS [De Bellis]. (col. 717)

QVAESTIO I — How many were Joshua’s wars against the Canaanites? (col. 717)
QVAESTIO II — Were these wars just? And first: Did the Israelites justly move arms against the Canaanites? (col. 717)
QVAESTIO III — Against the just arms of the Israelites, did the Canaanites too justly bear arms? (col. 723)
QVAESTIO IV — What do these wars of the Israelites against the Canaanites signify? (col. 727)

2. ON JOSHUA’S FIVE WARS AGAINST THE CANAANITES, ONE BY ONE [singillatim]. (col. 733)

THE FIRST WAR: THE WAR OF JERICHO [Primum Bellum Hierichuntinum].

CAPUT VI. (col. 733)

QVAESTIVNCVLA I — What [was] the state of Jericho at [the time of] the war? (col. 735)
QVÆSTIO II — By what plan was Jericho to be assaulted? (col. 737)
QVÆSTIO III — What of the arrangement of those who go round Jericho in the first circuit? (col. 739)
QVÆSTIO IV — Of what kind were the trumpets of the seven priests? (col. 739)
QVÆSTIO V — What is Jobel [the Jubilee]? (col. 743)
QVÆSTIO VI — Whether “Jubilaeus” is rightly derived from “iobel”? (col. 747)
QVÆSTIO VII — Whether, at the time of the siege of Jericho, the Jubilee years had already begun? (col. 747)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Why did the Lord will that, in the siege of Jericho, [the trumpets] be sounded with such Jubilee-buccinae? (col. 747)
QVÆSTIO IX — How many, and which, priests carried the ark around Jericho? And whether their sides were bare of all protection? (col. 749)
QVÆSTIO X — Whether, the warriors excepted, the rest of the multitude of the Israelites followed the ark? (col. 749)
QVÆSTIO XI — Whether in that last column of those following the ark there were priests, Levites, and some Egyptians? (col. 751)
QVÆSTIO XII — Whether in that same last column, besides the seven priests before the ark, there were any [other] horn-blowers? (col. 753)
QVÆSTIO XIII — Whether Joshua enjoined this order of going round Jericho upon the people by himself, or through the priests? (col. 753)
QVÆSTIO XIV — How was Jericho stormed? (col. 755)
QVÆSTIO XV — What was the people’s shout? (col. 755)
QVÆSTIO XVI — To what end [was] this shout? (col. 755)
QVÆSTIO XVII — When, and how, was this same shout commanded, and poured forth? (col. 757)
QVÆSTIO XVIII — Concerning the anathematizing of the city and the preservation of Rahab: when [were they] commanded by Joshua? (col. 757)
QVÆSTIO XIX — The circuits — how many were they? (col. 759)
QVÆSTIO XX — Whether the walls of Jericho fell upon the surface of the ground? (col. 759)
QVÆSTIO XXI — Whether the same walls collapsed of their own accord [spontaneously]? (col. 761)
QVÆSTIO XXII — Whether the sound of the trumpets and the people’s shout overthrew and cast down the same walls? (col. 763)
QVÆSTIO XXIII — How did the Israelites enter the city, and what did they do there? (col. 765)
QVÆSTIO XXIV — For what reason did the Lord will this war to be waged by the carrying-around of the ark? (col. 767)
QVÆSTIO XXV — Why were the circuits made with the multitude, and in the order set out above? (col. 769)
QVÆSTIO XXVI — Why did the Lord judge that many days, trumpets, and circuits should be employed here? (col. 769)
QVÆSTIO XXVII — Why, along with the trumpet-clangor, was now silence, now a shout, enjoined upon the people? (col. 773)
QVÆSTIO XXVIII — Why, definitely, were seven trumpets, seven days, and — on the seventh day — seven circuits employed? (col. 775)
QVÆSTIO XXIX — Of these seven days, which was the first, and which the last? Was it the Passover? the Sabbath? or another day? (col. 779)
QVÆSTIO XXX — At what hour of the seventh day was Jericho taken? (col. 783)
QVÆSTIO XXXI — Whether Jericho was burned on the same seventh day? (col. 785)
QVÆSTIO XXXII — But how does the Jericho week [septenary] fit Jesus [Joshua]? (col. 785)
QVÆSTIO XXXIII — What is “anathema” and “cherem”? (col. 789)
QVÆSTIO XXXIV — How manifold is the anathema? (col. 791)
QVÆSTIO XXXV — Of what kind [was] the Jericho anathema? (col. 791)
QVÆSTIO XXXVI — Could all the mothers, virgins, and girls of that city be rightly included in the Jericho anathema? (col. 791)
QVÆSTIO XXXVII — Were infants, boys, and decrepit old men rightly included in the same anathema? (col. 793)
QVÆSTIO XXXVIII — Were the beasts and cattle, the garments, and the other inanimate things rightly included in the same anathema? (col. 795)
QVÆSTIO XXXIX — Why was so dire an anathema inflicted upon a city so beautiful and opulent? (col. 795)
QVÆSTIO XL — Why were the metals excepted from this anathema, and what was done with them? (col. 797)
QVÆSTIO XLI — Whether, besides those four kinds of metals brought into the Lord’s treasury, there were also others; and whether whatever could be found of those four [was brought in]? (col. 799)
QVÆSTIO XLII — Whether it is lawful for the houses of God, or the Christian Churches, to have treasuries? (col. 801)
QVÆSTIO XLIII — Of the anathema of persons: who were excepted? and whether rightly? (col. 801)
QVÆSTIO XLIV — Whether the household-goods of Rahab herself and of her kin, and all the other goods, were preserved? (col. 803)
QVÆSTIO XLV — Who [were they that] preserved Rahab, and her kinsfolk and goods? (col. 805)
QVÆSTIO XLVI — For what causes was Rahab preserved with all her people? (col. 805)
QVÆSTIO XLVII — What manner was used in preserving Rahab and her kinsfolk? (col. 807)
QVÆSTIO XLVIII — Whether, just as in body, so also in soul, Rahab and her kinsfolk were saved? (col. 809)
QVÆSTIO XLIX — Rahab being preserved, did any of the Israelites take her to wife — and who? (col. 809)
QVÆSTIO L — Whether Salmon rightly married this same Rahab? (col. 809)
QVÆSTIO LI — What offspring [came] from this marriage of Rahab and Salmon? (col. 811)
QVÆSTIO LII — What further did Joshua decree against Jericho, [now] emptied by slaughters and swallowed by fire? (col. 811)
QVÆSTIO LIII — Did Joshua rightly imprecate [a curse] on the rebuilder of Jericho? (col. 813)
QVÆSTIO LIV — Are the builders, the masons, and the workmen liable to the same imprecation? (col. 813)
QVÆSTIO LV — Did the inhabitants of the now-rebuilt city fall under the same imprecation? (col. 815)
QVÆSTIO LVI — Whether, if anyone should raise up on the same site another city under another name, he would be held by the same imprecation? (col. 815)
QVÆSTIO LVII — What if the rebuilder of Jericho had had no children, or at least not so many? (col. 815)
QVÆSTIO LVIII — Was any of the Jews so bold that, against this imprecation, he thought of the restoration of Jericho? (col. 815)
QVÆSTIO LIX — Did Hiel do [it] against the same imprecation with impunity? (col. 817)
QVÆSTIO LX — How great [was] Joshua’s glory, and what [was] its cause? (col. 819)

CAPVT VII. (col. 821)

TEXTVS.

QVÆSTIO I — Who [was] Achan? (col. 823)
QVÆSTIO II — Why is Achan’s genealogy indicated so carefully? (col. 825)
QVÆSTIO III — What did Achan commit? (col. 825)
QVÆSTIO IV — What, and of what kind, [was] the garment which Achan stole? (col. 827)
QVÆSTIO V — What, and how much, silver did Achan steal? (col. 829)
QVÆSTIO VI — What, and how much, of gold did Achan steal? (col. 835)
QVÆSTIO VII — In what manner was Achan led to these thefts? (col. 837)
QVÆSTIO VIII — In what manner did Achan cover his thefts? (col. 841)
QVÆSTIO IX — Of what kind was Achan’s sin? (col. 843)
QVÆSTIO X — Achan’s sacrilege being so hidden, how was it detected? (col. 843)
QVÆSTIO XI — The description of the city of Ai, its reconnaissance, the beginning of the war against it, and the receiving of the loss and disaster? (col. 843)
QVÆSTIO XII — What, having learned of the slaughter and flight of their own, did the Israelite people, and its Leader Joshua, and the elders, do? (col. 847)
QVÆSTIO XIII — What [was] Joshua’s prayer to God? (col. 849)
QVÆSTIO XIV — To Joshua’s petition, what [was] the response of God the Best and Greatest? (col. 853)
QVÆSTIO XV — What method of inquiring out the guilty one was prescribed by God? (col. 855)
QVÆSTIO XVI — Whether by lot, or by the oracle of Urim and Thummim, or by some other way, the guilty tribe, clan, house, [and] person were detected? (col. 855)
QVÆSTIO XVII — How manifold [is] the lot? (col. 857)
QVÆSTIO XVIII — Are lots fortuitous? (col. 859)
QVÆSTIO XIX — Are lots evil by their own nature? (col. 861)
QVÆSTIO XX — Of lots which of their own kind are not vicious, are some forbidden, some permitted? (col. 863)
QVÆSTIO XXI — What [are] the conditions of the permitted lots? (col. 867)
QVÆSTIO XXII — When and how was the lot conducted in [the case of] Achan? (col. 869)
QVÆSTIO XXIII — How, with the occasion of a night intervening, did Achan not flee, but awaited the announced — and indeed the last — lot? (col. 869)
QVÆSTIO XXIV — Achan, [once] betrayed by the lot, how did Joshua lead [him] to the confession of [his] sin? (col. 871)
QVÆSTIO XXV — How, by the confession of his sin, could Achan give glory to God? (col. 873)
QVÆSTIO XXVI — Why did Joshua strive to lead Achan to the confession of his sin? (col. 875)
QVÆSTIO XXVII — Of what kind [was] Achan’s confession? (col. 875)
QVÆSTIO XXVIII — How, and why, was the eye-witness inspection of Achan’s sacrilege made? (col. 879)
QVÆSTIO XXIX — With what punishment was the sacrilegious Achan afflicted? (col. 879)
QVÆSTIO XXX — What things, and what men, were burned and overwhelmed with stones together with Achan? (col. 883)
QVÆSTIO XXXI — Why were inanimate things, and brute cattle, burned? (col. 885)
QVÆSTIO XXXII — Why were Achan’s sons and daughter burned? (col. 885)
QVÆSTIO XXXIII — On what men, or things, is the punishment of cremation inflicted? (col. 887)
QVÆSTIO XXXIV — Why were stones cast upon the ashes, or the half-burned bones, of all [these]? (col. 889)
QVÆSTIO XXXV — Achan being now overwhelmed, why was a heap of stones raised [over him]? (col. 891)
QVÆSTIO XXXVI — How, through Achan’s punishment, was the Lord’s fury turned away from the Israelites? (col. 891)
QVÆSTIO XXXVII — For what causes does the Lord rightly punish some innocent [persons], with temporal punishments, on account of the guilt of others? (col. 893)
QVÆSTIO XXXVIII — Whether human Judges can extend even the temporary punishments of the guilty to the innocent? (col. 901)
QVÆSTIO XXXIX — Whether the Lord can inflict, even on the innocent, the punishments by which the souls of the guilty are tortured in this or the future age? (col. 903)
QVÆSTIO XL — How do the scriptures agree — which say, and deny, [that] the punishments of the guilty are transferred to the guilty, and especially of parents to sons? (col. 903)
QVÆSTIO XLI — Was Achan adjudged to the eternal fire, or rather to heavenly felicity? (col. 905)
QVÆSTIO XLII — Whom can Achan’s punishment terrify? (col. 905)
QVÆSTIO XLIII — Concerning the sacrilegious Calvinians and Lutherans — what [do] the Lutherans and Luther [say]? (col. 909)
QVÆSTIO XLIV — How, from the books of the Gentile and Heretic Poets, orators, and Philosophers, do some at times become Achans? (col. 909)
QVÆSTIO XLV — How do Heretics and Apostate Monks become Achans? (col. 911)
QVÆSTIO XLVI — How greatly must one beware, lest — after the manner of Achan — we harm the community by sinning? (col. 913)
QVÆSTIO XLVII — How are masters, Pastors, [and] Bishops sometimes the cause that some Achans — who by their sins harm the community — arise? (col. 915)
QVÆSTIO XLVIII — Why, and whence, [is it] called the valley of Achor? (col. 917)

CAPVT VIII. — The Second War, of Ai (col. 917)

QVÆSTIO I — Are there, properly [speaking], ambushes in war? (col. 921)
QVÆSTIO II — Whether it is lawful to use ambushes in war? (col. 921)
QVÆSTIO III — Of how many kinds, how great, where, and when did Joshua place ambushes? (col. 931)
QVÆSTIO IV — How did Joshua place the ambushes so secretly that they were neither perceived nor detected by the men of Ai? (col. 931)
QVÆSTIO V — By what signal roused did the ambush take the city? (col. 931)
QVÆSTIO VI — What, and to what end, was Joshua bidden by the Lord to raise? (col. 933)
QVÆSTIO VII — When, and how, did the Lord command the extension of the hand and shield? (col. 935)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Whether in this battle any of the Jews were slain? and of the enemy, who and how many? (col. 935)
QVÆSTIO IX — Why was Ai destroyed by fire? (v. 28) (col. 935)
QVÆSTIO X — The King of Ai — in what manner, and why, [was he] hung? (v. 29) (col. 935)
QVÆSTIO XI — When was the King of Ai taken down from the cross, and why? (col. 937)
QVÆSTIO XII — Where, and how, was the King of Ai buried? (col. 937)
QVÆSTIO XIII — What [is] the allegory of the storming of Ai? (col. 937)

Second Part of Chapter 8 — On the Ceremony on Mounts Ebal and Gerizim (col. 939)

QVÆSTIO XIV — Of what sort, and where, [are] Mounts Ebal and Gerizim? (col. 941)
QVÆSTIO XV — On which mountain [was] the altar? and on this one or that, which tribe, and how [arranged]? (col. 943)
QVÆSTIO XVI — Of what kind was the altar on Ebal? (col. 945)
QVÆSTIO XVII — What sacrifices were made on Ebal? (col. 945)
QVÆSTIO XVIII — Whether, besides the Altar’s stones, some others [were] erected? (col. 947)
QVÆSTIO XIX — How many, how great, and of what kind [were] these stones? (col. 947)
QVÆSTIO XX — What, then, [was] inscribed [on] these stones? (col. 947)
QVÆSTIO XXI — How was the inscription of Deuteronomy made upon these stones? (col. 949)
QVÆSTIO XXII — How many, and of what kind, were the blessings [precations] and imprecations? (col. 949)
QVÆSTIO XXIII — In what manner did the priests conduct themselves in pronouncing these blessings and imprecations? (col. 949)
QVÆSTIO XXIV — When did the Israelites come to these mountains for the sake of this ceremony? (col. 951)
QVÆSTIO XXV — How long was labor given to this ceremony? (col. 951)
QVÆSTIO XXVI — Why was this whole ceremony undertaken? (col. 951)
QVÆSTIO XXVII — What [is] the allegory of this ceremony? (col. 951)

CAPVT IX — The Third War: The Gibeonite (col. 955)

QVÆSTIO I — What city [is] Gabaon, and where? (col. 957)
QVÆSTIO II — Which [were] the other cities of the Hevites, joined to Gabaon? (col. 959)
QVÆSTIO III — What [was] the cunning of the Gabaonites for turning away from themselves the war of the Israelites? (col. 959)
QVÆSTIO IV — What, how, and in what language, did the legates of the Gabaonites speak to the Israelites? (col. 961)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether the Gabaonites rightly employed the fraud of things and words? (col. 961)
QVÆSTIO VI — What [did] the Israelites [say and do] at the embassy of the Gabaonites? (col. 965)
QVÆSTIO VII — Whether the Gabaonites embraced the true religion of the one God? (col. 965)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Whether the Israelites could strike a covenant with the Gabaonites? (col. 967)
QVÆSTIO IX — Whether the Israelites struck the covenant with the Gabaonites rightly — [in] the manner [in which] they struck [it]? (col. 967)
QVÆSTIO X — When and how did the Israelites find out the fraud of the Gabaonites? (col. 969)
QVÆSTIO XI — Whether the Israelites were bound by the oath given to the Gabaonites? (col. 969)
QVÆSTIO XII — Since the Israelites were not bound by that oath, [did they] rightly keep it? (col. 971)
QVÆSTIO XIII — In so great a readiness to believe the Gabaonites, could anything of virtue — either Joshua’s or Israel’s — be noted [marked]? (col. 971)
QVÆSTIO XIV — Whether any penalty could be imposed on the Gabaonites for the fraud, and what? (col. 973)
QVÆSTIO XV — What penalty was imposed on the Gabaonites for [their] lies and deceptions? (col. 973)
QVÆSTIO XVI — Where was the domicile of the Gabaonites thereafter? (col. 975)
QVÆSTIO XVII — Whether a wage was given to the Gabaonites [while] serving? (col. 975)
QVÆSTIO XVIII — Whether, by the festival of the Xylophoria [wood-carrying], the wood-servitude of the Gabaonites was taken away? (col. 977)
QVÆSTIO XIX — Whether, by the probatic [sheep-] pool and the fountain of the temple, the water-servitude of the same Gabaonites was taken away? (col. 977)
QVÆSTIO XX — Whether the Gabaonites are the Nethinim? (col. 977)
QVÆSTIO XXI — Whether many Gabaonites [were] slain by King Saul, and why? (col. 979)
QVÆSTIO XXII — From these Gabaonite [matters], what [is there] for the reforming of morals? (col. 981)
QVÆSTIO XXIII — How charming an allegory [is] the heretical Gabaonite history! (col. 983)
QVÆSTIO XXIV — The Catholic allegory of the same history. (col. 983)

CAPUT X (col. 985)

The Fourth War — namely the second Gabaonite [war], or the Adoni-zedekian

QUESTION I — Who were the five Kings that besieged Gabaon? (col. 987)
QUESTION II — How, and from what, is Jerusalem named? (col. 989)
QUESTION III — Which [city] is Hebron? (col. 993)
QUESTION IV — Which are Jarmuth, Lachish, Eglon? (col. 993)
QUESTION V — Why the King of Jerusalem summoned to himself four other Kings (col. 995)
QUESTION VI — Why the King of Jerusalem [was] the first to summon those other four Kings to himself (col. 995)
QUESTION VII — How did Joshua raise the siege of Gabaon, and put the Kings to flight? (col. 995)
QUESTION VIII — How did the Lord trouble these Kings? (col. 997)
QUESTION IX — Whether the terror cast upon the enemies was a “Panic” [terror] (col. 997)

CAPUT X (on Joshua, chapter 10) (col. 999)

QUESTION X — By what route did the terrified enemies flee? (col. 999)
QUESTION XI — What, how many, and of what kind were the stones the Lord hurled upon the fleeing? (col. 999)
QUESTION XII — Whence were these stones sent, by whom were they made and cast, and were they obtained by Joshua’s prayers? (col. 999)
QUESTION XIII — Whether in this battle the Sun and Moon stood still? (col. 1001)
QUESTION XIV — Whether the Sun and Moon can stand still naturally? (col. 1003)
QUESTION XV — Whether evil Angels can make the Sun and Moon stand still? (col. 1005)
QUESTION XVI — Whether any one of the good Angels could stay these same heavenly bodies of the Sun and Moon? (col. 1007)
QUESTION XVII — What were the efficient causes that, in the Gabaonite war, the Sun and Moon stood still? And what did the first [cause], namely Joshua, effect? (col. 1009)
QUESTION XVIII — Whether Joshua rightly asked and commanded that the Sun and Moon should deflect from the constant and perpetual law of nature? (col. 1009)
QUESTION XIX — What did the other efficient cause, namely God, effect? (col. 1013)
QUESTION XX — What did the third efficient cause, namely the Angel, effect? (col. 1015)
QUESTION XXI — Where did the Sun and Moon stand still? (col. 1017)
QUESTION XXII — In what month, day, [and] hour did the Sun and Moon stand still? (col. 1019)
QUESTION XXIII — How long did the Sun and Moon stand still? (col. 1021)
QUESTION XXIV — Whether so long a day had never been before? (col. 1023)
QUESTION XXV — Whether so long a day has [never] been afterward? (col. 1025)
QUESTION XXVI — When the Sun and Moon stood still, did the [other] stars and the other orbs of the heavens stand still [too]? (col. 1029)
QUESTION XXVII — From the rest of the Sun and Moon, did a rest of all things follow in the sublunary world? (col. 1029)
QUESTION XXVIII — How could Joshua, and the whole people, bear the weight and heat of so long a day? (col. 1031)
QUESTION XXIX — Whether it is a greater miracle for the Sun to stand still, or to go back? (col. 1031)
QUESTION XXX — Whether on account of this miracle Joshua [is] greater than Moses? (col. 1033)
QUESTION XXXI — Whether the ancient writers remembered so great a miracle? (col. 1035)
QUESTION XXXII — Who [is] the “Book of the Just” cited in the text? (col. 1035)
QUESTION XXXIII — Whether the [things] which our text adduces from the cited Book of the Just are poetic, and verses? (col. 1035)
QUESTION XXXIV — Why is the same Book of the Just cited by the text? (col. 1039)
QUESTION XXXV — Does the Book of the Just exist? Or, how did it perish? (col. 1039)
QUESTION XXXVI — Whither, how, and when did the victorious Israelites return from the slaughter of the enemy? (col. 1039)
QUESTION XXXVII — What did the conquered enemy, and the enemy Kings, do [and] suffer? (col. 1041)
QUESTION XXXVIII — For this victory, did Joshua sing any song? (col. 1042)
QUESTION XXXIX — On certain moral [lessons]? (col. 1043)
QUESTION XL — On the allegory of this war (col. 1047) THE FIFTH WAR, THE SOUTHERN [WAR]; and the second part of the tenth chapter.

CAPUT XI — The Sixth War: The Jabinite [War], or the Northern (col. 1055)

QVÆSTIO I — What [is] Asor, and its King? (col. 1057)
QVÆSTIO II — Which Kings and peoples did King Jabin stir up against the Israelites? (col. 1057)
QVÆSTIO III — Of how great a number were these enemies against Israel? (col. 1059)
QVÆSTIO IV — Into what place did these enemies assemble? (col. 1061)
QVÆSTIO V — How, when, and why did the Lord confirm Joshua? (v. 6) (col. 1063)
QVÆSTIO VI — How, and how far, did Joshua put to flight and cut down this innumerable multitude of enemies? (col. 1063)
QVÆSTIO VII — What did Joshua do after so great a victory? (col. 1065)
QVÆSTIO VIII — In prosecuting his victory, what cities and kingdoms did Joshua occupy, and either lay waste or preserve? (col. 1067)
QVÆSTIO IX — Whether Joshua left no remnants of the Canaanites? (col. 1069)
QVÆSTIO X — Why did Joshua do all these things thus? (col. 1069)
QVÆSTIO XI — Why did God will all these things to be done thus by Joshua? (col. 1073)
QVÆSTIO XII — What is the hardening of the heart? (col. 1075)
QVÆSTIO XIII — What are the efficient causes of the hardening? (col. 1075)
QVÆSTIO XIV — How is God sometimes said to harden someone, or to be the cause of someone’s hardening? (col. 1077)
QVÆSTIO XV — What is the effect of this hardening? (col. 1079)
QVÆSTIO XVI — How long a time did Joshua take to accomplish these wars, and destroy the Enakim? (col. 1079)
QVÆSTIO XVII — What [is] the mystical explanation of this chapter? (col. 1079)

CAPUT XII — (col. 1081)

QVÆSTIO I — How many, and which, Kings were subdued and destroyed by Joshua? (col. 1081)
QVÆSTIO II — Whence [came there] so many Kings? (col. 1083)
QVÆSTIO III — In how many years’ space did Joshua reduce all these Canaanite kings, and their kingdoms, under the dominion of the Israelites? (col. 1083)
QVÆSTIO IV — Whether Joshua, at the beginning of these wars, invited the Canaanites to peace and surrender? (col. 1085)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether the Canaanites, refusing peace and surrender, blocked the wells and springs, lest the use of them be for the Israelites, and did other things of that kind? (col. 1085)
QVÆSTIO VI — Whether some Canaanites hid themselves in caves for fear of Joshua, and others fled into other regions — especially Libya and Germany? (col. 1085)

There follow the ΤΑ ΜΕΤΑΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΑ [Ta Metapolemika] — that is, those [things] which happened after the Joshuan wars (col. 1089)

BOOK OF JOSHUA, SECOND PART: PART THREE — Of those [things] which [come] after the wars

CAPUT XIII — (col. 1089)

FIRST — The division of the sacred land, or of the holy promised land

QVÆSTIO I — What [is] this promised land to be divided? (col. 1091)
QVÆSTIO III — Of what sort [is] this land to be divided? (col. 1091)
QVÆSTIO III — Compared to other regions, of what sort [is] the same land? (col. 1095)
QVÆSTIO IIII — How great [is] that same land? (col. 1101)
QVÆSTIO V — Into what parts was the land divided? (col. 1105)
QVÆSTIO VI — Why was the Levitical tribe excluded from the inheritance, and from every portion of the land? (col. 1107)
QVÆSTIO VII — To what time is the interpretation to be assigned, [of the right] taken away from Levi himself? *[the print: “Quando capiendae interpretationis ius ipsi Levi ademptum?” — i.e. to what point is Levi’s loss of his right [to a land-portion] to be referred.] (col. 1109)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Did Ephraim and Manasseh succeed into the place of the Levites? (col. 1111)
QVÆSTIO IX — Whether the land ought to have been divided into twelve portions, and why? (col. 1111)
QVÆSTIO X — Who [were] the dividers of the promised land? (col. 1113)
QVÆSTIO XI — Where was the division of the land made? (col. 1115)
QVÆSTIO XII — In what manner was the division made? (col. 1117)
QVÆSTIO XIII — At what time was the division made? (col. 1119)
QVÆSTIO XIV — Were the Sabbatical and Jubilee years begun from that division of the land? (col. 1121)
QVÆSTIO XV — How did the Sabbatical and Jubilee years cease to be counted by the Jews? (col. 1127)
QVÆSTIO XVI — From the division of the land to CHRIST the Lord, how many Sabbaticals and Jubilees were there in sum? (col. 1129)
QVÆSTIO XVII — For what causes did the Lord will that land to be so divided? (col. 1131)

CAPUT XIV — Concerning the division of the land, in detail (col. 1035)

QVÆSTIO I — Why did the Judaic and Josephine tribes cast lots first of all, and receive [their] portion [first]? (col. 1035)
QVÆSTIO II — When did Caleb approach Joshua, [as] about to seek the promised territory? (col. 1035)
QVÆSTIO III — Who, and of what sort, [was] the man Caleb? (col. 1137)
QVÆSTIO IV — What [is] the mountain which Caleb seeks from Joshua? (col. 1141)
QVÆSTIO V — What city [is] Hebron? and what [is] in it? (col. 1143)
QVÆSTIO VI — Whether Caleb obtained Hebron, which he was seeking from Joshua? (col. 1149)
QVÆSTIO VII — Whether Hebron [was] stormed by Joshua, or by Caleb? And how? (col. 1149)
QVÆSTIO VIII — How did Caleb take Hebron? (col. 1151)

CAPUT XV — The portion and dominion of the tribe of Juda (col. 1153)

QVÆSTIO I — Whether the investigation of those cities and places be useful. (col. 1155)
QVÆSTIO II — What [is] to be noted in the borders of Judaea? (col. 1157)
QVÆSTIO III — How many Southern cities of Juda were there? (col. 1159)
QVÆSTIO IV — How many cities [were there] in the plains of Judaea? (col. 1159)
QVÆSTIO V — In the mountains, the deserts, and in sum in the whole tribe of Judaea, how many cities? (col. 1161)
QVÆSTIO VI — Did any cities later depart from, or accede to, this tribe? (col. 1161)
QVÆSTIO VII — To what tribe did Jerusalem belong, and why could the Jebusites not be expelled from it? (col. 1163)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Why are the single or several places of the tribe of Juda not handled [in detail] here? (col. 1163)

CAPUT XVI — Concerning the Portions of the two Josephine tribes, and specifically of the Ephraimite [portion] thereof (col. 1163)

CAPUT XVII — Concerning the Portion of the tribe of Manasse (col. 1167)

CAPUT XVIII — Concerning the second division of the land among the seven remaining tribes; and specifically of the Benjaminite portion (col. 1171)

QVÆSTIO I — What, and where, [is] Shiloh? (col. 1173)
QVÆSTIO II — What assembly [was] held by Joshua at Shiloh, and what [was] decreed in it? (col. 1173)
QVÆSTIO III — What [is] “the tabernacle of testimony”? (col. 1175)
QVÆSTIO IV — Whether at Shiloh, first of all in the land of Canaan, Moses’s tabernacle was fixed? (col. 1175)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether at Shiloh the tabernacle stood under the open sky, or in some house? (col. 1175)
QVÆSTIO VI — Why [was] the tabernacle taken away from Gilgal, and transferred to Shiloh? (col. 1177)
QVÆSTIO VII — At what time [was] the tabernacle transferred to Shiloh? (col. 1179)
QVÆSTIO VIII — How long did the tabernacle remain at Shiloh? (col. 1179)
QVÆSTIO IX — Why did the tabernacle afterward emigrate [depart] from Shiloh? (col. 1179)
QVÆSTIO X — Whether, together with the tabernacle, the camp of the Israelites [was] transferred to Shiloh from Gilgal? (col. 1181)
QVÆSTIO XI — Whether, the tabernacle being transferred to Shiloh and the camp being fixed in that same place, the observance of the Mosaic ceremonies and of the whole law began? (col. 1181)
QVÆSTIO XII — Why [was] the casting-of-lots of the land, begun at Gilgal, interrupted? (col. 1181)
QVÆSTIO XIII — How [was] the second division of the land undertaken and completed? (col. 1183)
QVÆSTIO XIV — What [are] the limits [borders] and cities of the Benjaminite tribe? (col. 1185)

CAPUT XIX — Concerning the portions of the remaining six tribes, and of Joshua himself (col. 1187)

QVÆSTIO I — What [are] the limits [borders] and cities of the Simeonic tribe? (col. 1189)
QVÆSTIO II — By what right or manner [was] the Simeonic portion placed within the Judaean tribe? (col. 1189)
QVÆSTIO III — Why [was] the Simeonic [portion] placed within the bounds of the Judaic [tribe] rather than of any other tribe whatsoever? (col. 1191)
QVÆSTIO IV — Whether by an error of the lot, or in what other manner, [was] the Judaic tribe’s portion greater than would suit [it]? (col. 1191)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether the Jews [Judahites] received the Simeonites into their lot unwillingly and grievingly? (col. 1193)
QVÆSTIO VI — Of what limits [borders] and cities does the tribe of Zabulon consist? (col. 1195)
QVÆSTIO VII — What limits [borders] and cities the Issacharite tribe had? (col. 1197)
QVÆSTIO VIII — For the Aserite tribe, what borders? what cities? (col. 1197)
QVÆSTIO IX — For the Nephtalite tribe, what borders, and what cities, were decreed? (col. 1199)
QVÆSTIO X — By what limits [was] the Danite portion contained? what cities did [it] contain? (col. 1201)
QVÆSTIO XI — Which [inheritance], and where, did the Commander Joshua receive? (col. 1201)
QVÆSTIO XII — When and how did Joshua receive that inheritance? (col. 1203)
QVÆSTIO XIII — What did the leader Joshua display in the love, the petition [requesting], the building, and the inhabiting of this his inheritance? (col. 1203)

CAPUT XX (col. 1207)

QVÆSTIO I — What [are] the cities of refuge? (col. 1207)
QVÆSTIO II — Whom, among the Israelites, did the cities of refuge protect, and why? (col. 1207)
QVÆSTIO III — How, and against whom, did the asylum-cities protect a refugee? (col. 1209)
QVÆSTIO IV — How long did the same cities of refuge protect a refugee? (col. 1211)
QVÆSTIO V — Why did the death of the high priest free the exiles from the cities of refuge, and from [their] exiles [banishments]? (col. 1211)
QVÆSTIO VI — How many cities of refuge, and of what kind? (col. 1215)
QVÆSTIO VII — Whether the City of the Sanctuary, or the Sanctuary itself, was an Asylum? (col. 1217)
QVÆSTIO VIII — Whether among Christians [there] are also any asylums? and which [are] they? (col. 1219)
QVÆSTIO IX — What [is] the difference between the asylums of the Old Testament and of the New? (col. 1219)
QVÆSTIO X — Whether among the Israelites, and [among] Christians, asylums of this kind [were] rightly instituted? (col. 1221)
QVÆSTIO XI — Whether, against the Asylums of the Christians, Masius spoke prudently enough in this place? (col. 1223)
QVÆSTIO XII — What [is] the mystical explanation of the cities of refuge? (col. 1225)

CAPUT XXI (col. 1227)

QVÆSTIO I — Why [were] cities given to the Levites? (col. 1229)
QVÆSTIO II — How [were] cities given to the Levites? (col. 1229)
QVÆSTIO III — How many cities in all [were] given to all the Levites? (col. 1231)
QVÆSTIO IV — How many, and which, cities [were] given to the chief families of the Levites? (col. 1233)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether the Levites dwelt in other cities [too]? (col. 1235)
QVÆSTIO VI — How large, and of what kind, [were] those cities of the Levites? (col. 1237)
QVÆSTIO VII — What, and for what, [were] the spaces around those cities given to the Levites? (col. 1239)
QVÆSTIO VIII — How great [large were] the suburbs of the Levitic cities? (col. 1239)
QVÆSTIO IX — Whether, in the cities given to the Levites, [there] was any right left — after the giving — to the tribes, or to the tribesmen who had given them? (col. 1243)
QVÆSTIO X — Whether in the Levitic cities, besides the Levites, no one dwelt? (col. 1245)

CAPUT XXII (col. 1249)

QVÆSTIO I — What, and how, did Joshua speak to the Transjordanian tribes [as they were] about to depart? (col. 1251)
QVÆSTIO II — How did [they] depart, and [how, as they] departed, did the Transjordanian tribes raise up an altar on the way? (col. 1253)
QVÆSTIO III — Did the Transjordanians act rightly in erecting that altar? (col. 1255)

CAPUT XXIII (col. 1263)

CAPUT XXIV (col. 1267)

QVÆSTIO I — Where [was it] that Joshua, [as] Commander, held this last gathering of the people, and [his] last words to it? (col. 1269)
QVÆSTIO II — Whether the ancestors of the Israelites, whom Joshua led into the land of promise, were idolaters in Mesopotamia and Egypt? (col. 1271)
QVÆSTIO III — Whether also, in Joshua’s own time, [there] were still any Israelites [who were] idolaters? (col. 1271)
QVÆSTIO IV — Whether the Lord [truly] sent hornets, before the Israelites, upon their enemies? (col. 1273)
QVÆSTIO V — Whether Joshua made to the Israelites a true option [choice] of serving God or the [false] gods? (col. 1275)
QVÆSTIO VI — How did [Joshua] say (v. 19) to the Israelites [who were] choosing God: “You will not be able to serve the Lord”? (col. 1277)
QVÆSTIO VII — How did Joshua strike [make] a covenant with the Israelites? (col. 1277)
QVÆSTIO VIII — When did Joshua die? (col. 1281)
QVÆSTIO IX — Where, and with what mourning [planctu], was Joshua buried? (col. 1283)
QVÆSTIO X — What [kind of] sepulchre [had] the Leader Joshua? and were the stone knives buried with him in this [sepulchre]? (col. 1283)
QVÆSTIO XI — What [was] the epitaph of Joshua? (col. 1283)
QVÆSTIO XII — What other monuments [exist] to the perpetual memory of Joshua? (col. 1285)
QVÆSTIO XIII — Whether Joshua waged any war with the Kings of Armenia, Persia, and Media? (col. 1285)
QVÆSTIO XIV — Whether Joshua left children, or was celibate [coelebs]? (col. 1289)
QVÆSTIO XV — Whether Joshua escaped the teeth of heretics? (col. 1291)
QVÆSTIO XVI — When were Joseph’s bones buried? (col. 1291)
QVÆSTIO XVII — Where were Joseph’s bones buried? (col. 1293)
QVÆSTIO XVIII — Whether, with Joseph, more other Patriarchs [were] buried at Shechem? (col. 1295)
QVÆSTIO XIX — How, and why, were Joseph’s bones transferred to Shechem? (col. 1295)
QVÆSTIO XX — How died, & where [was] buried, Eleazar the Pontiff? (col. 1297)
QVÆSTIO XXI — Who wrote the end of this book? and what [is] added to it by the 70 [LXX]? (col. 1297)