"It is sometimes said ten spies brought a false report, and two spies a true report. That is a mistake. They all brought the same report, so far as the land was concerned; but that in which Caleb and Joshua differed from the other spies was this: they besought the people in faith to go up and possess the land, to take sides with God and defy those foes; and the other ten admitted the fertility of the land, but advised them not to attempt to cope with the giants. And because Caleb and Joshua had not only set an example of belief in God, but urged all others to believe, the people were going to stone them to death -- and would have done so, but for the voice that spoke out of the pillar of cloud. Look at what  unbelief can do. Not only did it prompt the people to rebel against God, and refuse His promised possession, and halt on the very borders of the land, to which He had brought them with such wonderful interposition; but it made them ready to stone those who urged them to the career and conduct of faith. A most marvelous exhibition!"

-- Rev. A.T. Pierson, D.D

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