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XIX.
“Take unto thee Joshua
(᾽Ιησοῦν) the son of
Nun.”4826
For it was proper that
Moses should lead the people out of Egypt, but that Jesus (Joshua)
should lead them into the inheritance. Also that Moses, as was the case
with the law, should cease to be, but that Joshua (᾽Ιησοῦν), as the word,
and no untrue type of the Word made
flesh (ἐνυποστάτου),
should be a preacher to the people. Then again, [it was fit] that Moses
should give manna as food to the fathers, but Joshua wheat;4827
| 4827 Harvey conceives the reading
here (which is doubtful) to have been τὸν νέον σῖτον, the new wheat;
and sees an allusion to the wave-sheaf of the new corn offered in the
temple on the morning of our Lord’s resurrection. | as
the first-fruits of life, a type of the body of Christ, as also the
Scripture declares that the manna of the Lord ceased when the people had
eaten wheat from the land.4828
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