“You may read that it was possible for the nations to be exterminated at once out of the land which was given to the children of Israel, and yet that God willed it to be gradually effected. And one may meet with a thousand other incidents, the past or the future possibility of which we might readily admit, and yet be u…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — ON THE SPIRIT AND THE LETTER 1
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23Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.