Through these activities [Joshua] prefigures
the Savior Word, who, after the death of the letter of the law, assumed from
the summit of intelligible reality the leadership of the true Israel
that sees God [GK: του
αληθινου ‘Ισραηλ και
ορωντος Θεον]. (Maximus
the Confessor, Ambigua to John: Ambiguum 10, in On Difficulties in the
Church Fathers: The Ambigua, 2 vols. [trans. Nicholas Constas; Dumbarton
Oaks Medieval Library; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014], 1:175)
