Question I. What [is] this promised land to be divided?

In the first chapter of this book (q. 5 and following), it was expounded what and how great a land was promised to the Israelites by God. Now, therefore, concerning that very [land] it is asked: whether all of it is now to be divided, or only a part of it — and which [part]? I answer, first: Not all of it is to be divided, but only a part of it. For the outermost parts of it — as “Coele-Syria,” “Phoenice,” “Arabia” — by no means come here into the division; but only the inner regions, comprehended by the northern and southern boundaries set down before. Secondly: Not even all these inner regions are here divided, but only the Cisjordanian [part]. For already before, Moses himself had divided the Transjordanian [regions] for the two tribes Ruben and Gad, and likewise for the half tribe of Manasse, as is narrated (Num. ch. 32, and [as] is repeated in this ch. 13, from v. 8 to the very end). But there thou wilt observe [that] the Transjordanian [land] is called “Galaad,” but the Cisjordanian, “the land of Chanaan”; and here [it is] also repeated in detail what portion was assigned to each — the Rubenite indeed (of the tribe, from v. 16 to 24), the Gadite (from v. 24 to 29), [and that] of the half tribe of Manasse (from v. 29 to 33). Thirdly: Not even all the Cisjordanian [land] was now divided, [says] Abulensis (in this chapter, q. 3); but only that part of it which had not hitherto been conquered and subdued. For the other part, which had already come into the power of the Israelites, he reckons had [already] been distributed, because here (v. 2) it is written: “A very large land is left, which is not yet divided by lot.” Yet no such former division is anywhere else mentioned; no trace of it exists. For in the cited v. 2, thus in the Hebrew, word for word, it is: “the land remaining is very much, for possessing it by inheritance; and this is the land which remains.” For the text calls “remaining” [that] which, up to that time, had not been subdued and occupied; ἡ γῆ καταλελειμμένη [hē gē kataleleimmenē, “the land [which is] left”], say the 70. And the Interpreter [Vulgate] calls this “not yet divided” — not because the other part, as occupied, was also [therefore] divided; but because it truly was not yet divided, and was well called “residual [left-over],” not in respect of occupation and possession only, but also of the division which followed after: the whole Cisjordanian promised inheritance, therefore — as much [as was] already occupied as [what was] to be occupied thereafter — was now divided and distributed.