'Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, 'Sun, stand

'Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, ‘Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon.’ And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.' (Joshua 10:12–13) 

What are the different ways in which Christian thinkers might have interpreted this passage from the Old Testament book of Joshua before the mid seventeenth century?