1Ⅰ Joshua 3:1—4:24 is a record of the people of Israel crossing the Jordan River:
2一 当以色列人看见他们神的约柜,又见祭司利未人抬着,就要从所在的地方起行,跟着约柜去—三3、6:
2A When the people of Israel saw the Ark of the Covenant of their God and the Levitical priests bearing the Ark, they set out from their place and followed it—3:3, 6:
42 When the Ark of God went with the children of Israel, the Triune God went with them, taking the lead and thus being the first to step into the water—Josh. 3:8, 11.
53 约柜扛在祭司的肩头上,指明抬约柜的祭司按预表是与三一神成为一个实体—3节:
53 That the Ark was on the shoulders of the priests indicates that, in type, the priests who bore the Ark became one entity with the Triune God—v. 3:
6a 他们与神乃是一个团体人—团体的神人。
6a They and God were one corporate person—a corporate God-man.
7b 神在他们的行走里行走,他们在神的行走里行走。
7b God walked in their walking, and they walked in God’s walking.
11C Israel’s crossing of the river Jordan typifies not the believers’ physical death but the believers’ experience of the death of Christ, in which the old man is terminated and buried—Rom. 6:3-6; Gal. 2:20:
14a They were ready to enter into the good land, take the land as their possession, and engage in warfare against the Canaanites; however, in their old man they could not gain the victory.
15b In type, they were buried in the death of Christ, and then they were resurrected in the resurrection of Christ to become a new man in Christ for the fighting of the spiritual warfare—Eph. 6:10-20.
16c We need to realize that our old man, our natural man, is not qualified to fight the spiritual warfare for the gaining of Christ; in Christ we are no longer the old man but a new man—4:22-24.