YuēShūyàjì 5:3

3 Yuēshūyà jiù zhìzào le huǒshí dāo , zaì chú pí shān nàli gĕi Yǐsèliè rén xíng gēlǐ .

YuēShūyàjì 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 5:3

And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children
of Israel
Not that Joshua circumcised them himself, any more than he made the knives himself, but he ordered both to be done, and took care that they were done. And as any that had skill might make the knives, so might any circumcise; circumcision was not restrained to any order of men, not to the priests and Levites, but any might perform it; so that though the number to be circumcised was great, it might soon be finished: and this was done

at the hill of the foreskins;
as the place was afterward called from hence; these being heaped up one upon another, made a hill of them, as the Jews say ^F25, being covered with dust. This circumcision performed by Joshua, or his orders, was typical of the spiritual circumcision without hands, which those that believe in Jesus, the antitype of Joshua, partake of.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 29.) Jarchi in loc.

YuēShūyàjì 5:3 In-Context

1 Yuēdànhé xī Yàmólìrén de zhū wáng hé kào hǎi Jiānán rén de zhū wáng , tīngjian Yēhéhuá zaì Yǐsèliè rén qiánmian shǐ Yuēdànhé de shuǐ gàn le , dĕng dào wǒmen guō qù , tāmende xīn yīn Yǐsèliè rén de yuángù jiù xiāohuà le , bú zaì yǒu dǎn qì .

2 Nàshí , Yēhéhuá fēnfu Yuēshūyà shuō , nǐ zhìzào huǒshí dāo , dì èr cì gĕi Yǐsèliè rén xíng gēlǐ .

3 Yuēshūyà jiù zhìzào le huǒshí dāo , zaì chú pí shān nàli gĕi Yǐsèliè rén xíng gēlǐ .

4 Yuēshūyà xíng gēlǐ de yuángù , shì yīnwei cóng Āijí chūlai de zhòng mín , jiù shì yīqiè néng dǎzhàng de nán dīng , chū le Āijí yǐhòu , dōu sǐ zaì kuàngyĕ de lù shàng .

5 Yīnwei chūlai de zhòng mín dōu shòu guō gēlǐ . wéidú chū Āijí yǐhòu , zaì kuàngyĕ de lù shàng suǒ shēng de zhòng mín dōu méiyǒu shòu guō gēlǐ .