Just as not Moses, but some other pious & holy Prophet, wrote [the things] which, concerning his [Moses’s] death, were said there at the end of Deuteronomy: so [it] is to be said in this place [that] Joshua did not write, but another, or some others [wrote] afterward, [the things] which are in this last chapter, from v. 29 to the end. But I said, in the Prolegomenon, [that it] is asserted by the Thalmudists [that] this was partly Eleazar, partly Phinees. But to this [the end of] the Hebrew & Latin text, the 70 [LXX] add these [things]: Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ λαβόντες οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ περιεφέροσαν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· καὶ Φινεὲς ἱεράτευσεν ἀντὶ Ἐλεάζαρ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἕως ἀπέθανε· καὶ κατωρύγη ἐν Γαβαὰρ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ· οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ [ἐλάτρευσαν] τὴν Ἀστάρτην καὶ Ἀσταρώθ, καὶ τοὺς θεοὺς τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν κύκλῳ αὐτῶν· καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς κύριος εἰς χεῖρας Ἐγλὼν τῷ βασιλεῖ Μωάβ, καὶ ἐκυρίευσεν αὐτῶν ἔτη δέκα ὀκτώ [en ekeinē tē hēmera labontes hoi huioi Israēl tēn kibōton tou Theou periepherosan en heautois; kai Phinees hierateusen anti Eleazar tou patros autou heōs apethane; kai katōrygē en Gabaar tē heautou; hoi de huioi Israēl (elatreusan) tēn Astartēn kai Astarōth, kai tous theous tōn ethnōn tōn kyklō autōn; kai paredōken autous kyrios eis cheiras Eglōn tō basilei Mōab, kai ekyrieusen autōn etē deka oktō, “In that day the children of Israel, having taken the ark of God, carried it about among themselves; and Phinees exercised the priesthood in place of Eleazar his father, until he died; and he was buried in Gabaar, his own [place]. But the children of Israel [served] Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations round about them; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon the king of Moab, and he ruled over them eighteen years”]. But these [things are] in the following book, Judges (ch. 2 & 3); which, however, [are] in the 70 [LXX], as the Syriac Interpreter also notes, Masius [being] witness.
Glory [be] to the Father, & to the Son, & to the Holy Spirit; as [it] was in the beginning, & [is] now & always, & unto the ages of ages. Amen.
[— Here ends Nicolaus Serarius’s Commentary on Joshua (Iosue, ab utero ad ipsum usque tumulum). End of Caput XXIV; end of the commentary.]