| Joshua 4:9
| And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood, that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.
| Day. Some hence infer that Josue did not write this book. But surely if he wrote it towards the end of his life, he might well use this expression, (Menochius) as St. Matthew does to denote a shorter term. The twelve stones at Galgal, and in the bed of the Jordan, at Bethabara, (Haydock) were probably each placed apart. See Exodus 24:4. (Menochius) --- They were still to be seen in the days of St. Jerome. Such monuments were formerly very common, and very useful, to make a lasting impression upon the minds of a gross people. See Genesis 28:18., and Leviticus 26:1.
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