Question XV. Whether Joshua escaped the teeth of heretics?

[Though he was] victor of so many nations and Kings, [he] could by no means escape the most foul tongues and teeth of heretics. For those [heretics] dared to call him cruel and bloodthirsty [sanguinarius]. But [he] is vindicated from so signal a contumely even by the eulogy of this chapter alone. For [he] was the servant of God, and, in the slaughters which [he] waged, [he] was only the administrator [minister] of God — as [was] said above several times — and [they] can be seen [arrayed] against their petulant calumnies: St. Augustine (q. 19 on this book, and bk. 22 Against Faustus, ch. 78, 79); Theodoret (on ch. 8, or 9, & 10 of this book); Origen (homilies 10, 11, 12, 13).