Notes on Joshua · §3 · Origen of Alexandria

The Jordan piled like a heap of wheat as a type of the apostles

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Origen begins his commentary on Joshua 3:14, explaining what the departure of the people from their tents means.

“And all the people departed from their tents” (Joshua 3:14). That is, as a threshing floor is full. For the water was not merely congealed, as at the Red Sea, but was heaped up like a heap of wheat—clearly as a type of the apostles.

Greek

Στίχ. ιδ΄. Καὶ ἀπῆρε πᾶς λαὸς ἐκ τῶν σκηνωμάτων αὐτῶν.

Τουτέστιν, ὡς ἅλω πλήρωσις (69). Οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐπήγνυτο, ὡς ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ, ἀλλʼ ὡς θημὼν πυροῦ ἐσωρεύετο. Εἰς τύπον τῶν ἀποστόλων δηλονότι.