Commentary on the Six Days of Creation · §31

The Death of Joshua and Tribal Inheritances

He said, self-condemning, "Just as I have done, so God has repaid me. For seventy kings, their extremities of feet and hands having been cut off, were lying beneath my table, recounting the fallen ones." Having been brought into Jerusalem, he died immediately.

And Jesus caused to perish the land of Ephraim, belonging to the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Samaritans; and the land of Manasseh, half a tribe, belonging to the Geshurites and the Amorites. But he bequeathed the land of the Hebrews, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites, to Benjamin; and to Simeon, that of the Hebrews and the Perizzites; and to Zebulun, that of the Perizzites; and to the Kenites [...]

Greek

κατοδυρόμενος ἑαυτὸν ἔφη· «Καθὼς ἐποίησα, οὕτω μοι ὁ Θεὸς ἀνταπέδωκεν. Ἑβδομήκοντα γὰρ βασιλεῖς, τὰ ἄκρα τῶν ποδῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν ἐκκεκομμένοι, ὑποκάτω ἦσαν τῆς τραπέζης μου τὰ ἐμπίπτοντα ἀναλέγοντες.» Κομισθεὶς οὖν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ παραυτίκα ἀπέθανε. Τῇ δὲ φυλῇ Ἐφραῒμ τὴν τῶν Ἀμοῤῥαίων, καὶ Φερεζαίων, καὶ Σαμαραίων· καὶ τῷ ἡμίσει φυλῆς Μανασσῆ τὴν τῶν Γερσαίων, καὶ Ἀμοῤῥαίων γῆν ἀπένειμεν Ἰησοῦς· τὴν δὲ τῶν Ἑβραίων, καὶ Ἀμοῤῥαίων, καὶ Ἰεβουσαίων τῇ τοῦ Βενιαμὶν ἐκληροδότησε· τῇ δὲ τοῦ Συμεὼν τὴν τῶν Ἑβραίων καὶ Φερεζαίων· καὶ τῇ τοῦ Ζαβουλὼν τὴν τῶν Φερεζαίων· τὴν δὲ τῶν Κιναίων τῇ

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Commentary on the six days of creation (PG marks Spurious) attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.

Original English Translation — new OET from PG 18 Greek.

Catalogue & scope

Khazarzar scan

Witnesses

  • Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)

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