Numbers 27:18
And the Lord said to him: Take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Dominus ad eum : Tolle Josue filium Nun, virum in quo est spiritus, et pone manum tuam super eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐλάλησεν Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων Λάβε πρὸς σεαυτὸν τὸν Ἰησοῦν υἱὸν Ναυή, ἄνθρωπον ὃς ἔχει πνεῦμα ἐν ἑαυτῷ, καὶ ἐπιθήσεις τὰς χεῖράς σου ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל מֹשֶׁ֗ה קַח לְךָ֙ אֶת יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ בִּן נ֔וּן אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁר ר֣וּחַ בּ֑וֹ וְסָמַכְתָּ֥ אֶת יָדְךָ֖ עָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Spirit of God, which was given to him, when he was appointed a judge; (chap. xi. 17,) the spirit of prophesy, (Onkelos,) and of wisdom, (Deuteronomy xxxiv. 9,) of which he received a fresh increase, by the imposition of the hands of Moses. By the like ceremony people are confirmed, and ministers of religion are still ordained, Acts vi. 6., and 1 Timothy iv. 14. (Calmet)
God endues Josue with all the necessary qualifications for his high office. He makes choice of him, and not of any of the relations of Moses, that the people might not be offended at the supreme power being in a manner engrossed by one family; and he appoints one 93 year old, that the success of war might not be attributed to Josue, though he had been long at the head of the armies, and a man of the greatest authority, even the vice-gerent of Moses. He declares his election before all the multitude, with the high priest at their head, that there might be no dispute about the matter; and, on this account, he requires various external ceremonies to be observed. (Salien)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Fragments from the Lost Writings of, XIX
“Take unto thee Joshua ( Ἰησοῦν ) the son of Nun.” 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 ( Ἰησοῦν ), 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; 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.