Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
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Peter Chrysologus
AD 450
The twelve patriarchs destined to become twelve tribes were arranged to be a type and pattern of the number of the apostles. So were the twelve fountains in the desert and twelve stones taken from the bed of the Jordan. We leave it to the student of the law to find deeper proof of all this.
