Excerpt from Colenso and Joshua: Or the Miraculous Arrestment of the Sun and Moon Considered

To this the votaries of Inspiration have usually replied, that in reality it was the earth, and not the sun that stood still, but that Joshua used the language of the vulgar, or the language of appearances, forasmuch as revelation is not given to teach astronomy, but theology and had he spoken in the more precise language of philosophy, he would have been unintelligible to the people.

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