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Commentary on Joshua · John Calvin

Commentary on Joshua, Index – Colophon

A table of speciall names and matters, conteyned in this Commentarie vppon Iosue.

The first number noteth the Chapter. The second, the verse. The third, the leafe.

A.

AChans secreate offence rehearsed. 7. 1. fol. 33. he is carried out of the hoast to be punished, and for what causes. 7. 24. fol. 38.

Anak, and what his sonnes were. 11. 21. fol. 62.

Anathema, what it is. 6. 17. fol. 30.

Angel of principall excellencie, who it is. 5. 13. fol. 26.

Apostataes, who be. 22. 16. fol. 94.

Argument of the praeface vponupon Iosue. 1. 4. fol. 2.

Arke went before the Israelites in battell: and why? 3. 11. fol. 15. it is commended for dignities sake. 3. 4. fol. 15.

Armie of Iosue, whereof it appeareth it was great. 8. 13. fol. 41.

Armie of God, who are so called. 5. 14. fol. 26.

B.

Bethel, a litle Towne. 8. 17. fol. 42

C.

Capteines who are best counted. 8. 15. fol. 42.

Cause of feare sette foorth. 7. 9. fol. 35.

Celebration of the Passeouer. 5. 10. fol. 24.

Cities diligently kepte in time of warre. 6. 1. fol. 28.

Common mother to vsus all is our countrie. 2. 4. fol. 9.

Common destruction of the citie Hai. 7. 24. fol. 39.

Couetousnesse of men wittie. 13. 15. fol. 67.

D.

Decree for the remouing of the campe. 1. 10. fol. 5.

Description of the taking of those cities, out of which the armie of the children of Israels enimies were gathered. 10. 29. fol. 56.

Discharge of the two tribes and the halfe reported. 22. 1. fol. 92.

Distrust, the beginning of it, and the mischeefes which followe therevpon. 1. 5. fol. 3.

E.

Elder sorte charged to sette foorth the studie of godlinesse. 4. 7. fol. 17.

Example of rare modestie. 22. 21. fol. 96.

Exhortation to fortitude and courage. 1. 6. fol. 3.

F.

Faith of Rahab declared by another argument. 2. 12. fol. 11. the cheefe propertie thereof. 3. 2. fol. 14. the effectes which it worketh. 7. 6. fol. 34.

Faithfull withdrawen from couetousnesse. 1. 5. fol. 3.

G

Gadites, looke for Rubenites. 1. 16. fol. 6. and 1. 12. fol. 5.

Gibeonites appointed to be cleauers of wodde, and drawers of water. 9. 20. fol. 49. they obte…e peace of the Israelites. 9. 3. fol. 47. they hauehave their life graunted according to couenant. 9. 20. fol. 49.

God, when soeuer he worketh by men, his glorie is nothing diminished, but he must challenge to himselfe all that is done. 10. 10. fol. 53. he appeareth to Iosue. 11. 6. fo. 59. his fatherliecare, in pre uenting the daungers of his seruants. 11. 1. fol. 58. he is humbly to be intreated, so pietie teacheth. 10. 12. fol. 53. his singular fauour toward his Church. 10. 12. fol. 53. his notable fauour commended. 18. 9 fol. 82. his continual care in cherishing his people. 1. 1. fol. 1. his singular and extraordinarie power sette foorth, in helping his: and why? 3. 5. fol. 14.

Guiltie is he of the crime, that may lette it from being committed, and doeth suffer it to be done. 7. 1. fol. 33.

H.

Hai promised of God to be deliuered vntounto the Israelites. 8. 1. fol. 41.

He commeth to the land of Chanaan. 14. 1. fol. 69.

Holding vp the speare, what signe it was. 8. 26. fol. 43.

I.

Iericho promised to be taken. 6. 3. fol. 28. why God forbadde that it shoulde be builded vp againe. 6. 26. fol. 32. God woulde not hauehave the spoiles thereof to inrich his people. 6. 17. fol. 29.

Images what kinde condemned. 22. 26. fol. 96.

Interdictum, or Interdictment, what it is. 6. 17. fol. 30.

Interrogation of speciall force. 1. 9. fol. 4.

Iosue required to put off his shooes: and why? 5. 15. fol. 27. a singular example of fortitude and valiantnesse. 2. 16. fol. 6. appointed to be Moses successour. 1. 2. fol. 1. encouraged with speciall confidence: and why? 1. 5. fol. 2. why he inueihed sharply against Achan. 8. 25. fol. 39. why he telleth the Gibeonites before, that he decreeth nothing vniustly. 9. 22. fol. 50. fourescore yeares olde, when he entered into the lande. 12. 1. fol. 63. his office of gouernement. 1. 2. fol. 1. faithfull and vpright in keeping his promise. 6. 22. fol. 31. what was done after his death. 15. 1. fol. 74. what was geuen him in commandement. 1. 6. fol. 3. why God beautified him with an excellent marke. 4. 14. fol. 19. reprehended of God. 7. 10. fol. 36. he is not deceiued in the choyce of his spies. 2. 24. fol. 12. he exhorteth the people to consider nothing but the power of God. 3. 2. fol. 14.

Iosephes two sonnes, what fell to their lotte. 16. 1. fol. 76.

Iosephus disproued. 5. 9. fol. 24.

Israelites too much credulitie reproued. 9. 14. fol. 48. their enimies ouerthrowen, before they came to handblowes. 5. 1. fo. 22. they are couertly reproued. 20. 1. fol. 87. they fell to lasciuiousnesse and wantonnesse, so often as they enioyed prosperitie. 1. 4. fol. 2.

Iudges, their office. 7. 19. fol. 37.

K.

Kinges of Chanaan, why they were made dronke from aboue, with securitie and slouthfullnesse. 9. 1. fol. 46. their dead bodies hanged vponupon the gallowes. 10. 18. fol. 55. how many of them were subdued. 13. 1. fo. 64. their condition was not as other nations. 8. 29. fol. 43. their conspiracie. 10. 1. fol. 51. their neckes troden vponupon with feete &c, at the commandement of God. 10. 18. fol. 55. their new conspiracie. 11. 1. fol. 58. their names rehearsed, whose dominions the Israelites conquered. 12. 1. fol. 63. taken prisoners, spared of their conquerours: and why? 8. 29. fol. 43. their punishment. 10. 18. fo. 55.

Knowledge of God perceth deeper, than the vnderstanding of our minde. 7. 24. fol. 39.

L.

Lawe, the dailie meditation thereof commanded. 1. 8. fo. 3. vnderunder the name thereof, the summe and shorte preceptes are noted. 8. 32. fol. 45. it must hauehave nothing put to it, nor taken from it. 1. 6. fol. 3.

Leuites inferiour, their office and charge. 3. 4. fol. 14. Leuites dispersed into euerie tribe: and why? 21. 20. fol. 90.

LoueLove of our countrie naturally ingraffed in vsus. 2. 4. fol. 9.

Lying, how it is taken. 7. 10. fol. 36.

M.

Manasses posteritie hath in it seuen stockes or houses numbered. 17. 5. fol. 78. looke Rubenites. 1. 12. fol. 5. &. 1. 16. fol. 6.

Men doe nothing rightly, in good order, or with true knowledge: but so farre foorth as they submitte them selues to be gouerned by the worde of God. 1. 8. fol. 4.

Moses, in what sense he is called Gods seruant. 1. 2. fol. 1.

Moses being dead, the whole burthen and charge is turned ouer to Iosue. 1. 2. fol 1.

Mysterie of the Lordes supper, to whom it is cōmon. 5. 2. fol. 23.

O.

Obedience of the Israelites declared by a third token. 8. 33. fol. 45.

P.

Passage of the two tribes and the halfe specially mentioned. 4. 12. fol. 19.

Patience, and the fruit thereof. 6. 15. fol. 29.

Prerogatiue, wherewith God hath honored his cheefe seruants, & chosen Prophetes. 10. 8. fol. 54.

Principall cause of feare fulnesse in the men of Iericho. 2. 10. fol. 11.

Priestes submitte them selues with quiet and obedient mindes to the pleasure of God. 4. 16. fol. 20. their vertue in bearing the Arke worthie of no small commendation. 3. 15. fol. 16. their patience worthily commended. 4. 10. fol. 18. they are commanded of Iosue to beare the Arke. &c. 3. 6. fol. 15.

Purging of the people. 7. 13. fol. 36.

R.

Rabbines vsuall manner. 2. 2. fol. 8.

Rahab commanded to bring foorth the spies. 2. 4. fol. 9. the image of her faith. 2. 11. fol. 11.

Reprobates vse all meanes to destroy the Churche. 9. 1. fol. 46.

Reward of a message well and faith fully discharged. 14. 9. fol. 70.

Rightly to discharge dutie, what it is. 1. 16. fol. 6.

Right way for priuate men to frame their liues. 1. 6. fol. 4.

Rubenites, for what condition they had their inheritaunce graunted them on the other side of Iordan. 1. 12. fol. 5. Rubenites, Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasse, doe not onelyonly obey, but also most liberally & frankly offer such seruice as was of them required. 1. 16. fol. 6.

S.

Sacrifice first extraordin…rie that God woulde hauehave to be offered vntounto him in the land of Chanaan. 8. 30. fol. 44.

Signes of the profession of repentaunce. 7. 6. fol. 34.

Signes of chasing away the inhabitantes of the land of Chanaan, and of obteining victorie against all nations. 3. 10. fol. 15.

Slaughter of the enimies, wherof it was gathered to be greate. 11. 8. fol. 60.

Slaughter of all sortes of people, & common destruction. 7. 24. fol. 39.

Solemne assemblie held at Silo, reported. 18. 1. fol. 81.

Solemne mourning in time of affliction. 7. 6. fol. 34.

Spies curse themselues to death, if they did not vse all faithfulnesse and diligence to saue Rahab. 2. 14. fol. 12.

Spying, the manner thereof. 2. 1. fol. 8.

Sunne his ordinarie course chaunged in fauour of King Ezechias. 10. 14. fol. 54. how Iosue commandeth it to stand. 10. 12. fol. 53.

T.

Thankfulnesse of the people toward Iosue. 19. 49. fol. 86.

To lay the foundation vponupon the eldest sonne, what it is. 6. 26. fol. 32.

Token of God his power. 4. 24. fol. 21.

Treasures of God his goodnesse. 1. 4. fol. 2.

Trust in God, what preuaileth most to kindle the same in vsus. 1. 9. fol. 4.

Twelue stones set vp in Gilgal, at Iosue his commandement. 4. 1. fol. 17. and hidden in Iordan, they serued for a testimonie, &c. 4. 9. fol. 18.

V.

Vanquished, with what cogitation and thought they are refreshed, and comforted. 7. 6. fol. 34.

Uictorie of the ci…e Hai, why it was hard to atteine vntounto. 8. 18. fol. 42.

Victorie of the Israelites noted for crueltie. 10. 25. fol. 55.

Victories of Moses sette foorth before Iosue, &c. 1. 5. fol. 2.

Vision rehearsed, whereby Iosue was encouraged. 5. 13. fol. 25.

W.

Warlike knowledge, 7. 2. fol. 33.

Warlike practise and policie of the Israelites. 8. 15. fol. 42.

What is to be done, when there is any feare of warre. 2. 2. fol. 8.

Why the day is noted, in which the Israelites entered into the land of Chanaan. 4. 19. fol. 20.

Wickednesse amplified through stubbornesse, &c. 22. 17. fol. 94.

Willing obedience commended. 18. 9. fol. 82.

FINIS.

❧ Imprinted at London, by Thomas Dawson, for George Bishop. Anno. 1578.

End of the text · John Calvin, Commentary on Joshua (1578)