can you answer my question first? Did he alegorically stop the sun in the sky or literally stop the rotation of the earth?
Wouldn't there be two other choices for your conjecture?
He could have literally stopped the sun in the sky or allegorically stopped the rotation of the earth ...
Then of course BOTH must be a consideration.
And I am not sure of what your actual point it.
So Ill bite just out of curiosity and go with "He literally stopped the sun in the sky." ...