XVIII.
As the Lord Jesus Christ made His sojourn with us
in the flesh (which He received) from the holy, immaculate Virgin, and
took to Himself the tribe of Judah, and came forth from it, the
Scripture declared His royal lineage in the word of Jacob, when in his
benediction he addressed himself to his son in these terms:
“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy
hands shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s
children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion’s
whelp; from a sprout,1926
my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a
lion,
and as a
lion’s whelp:
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who shall
rouse him up? A
ruler1928
shall not
depart from
Judah, nor a
leader1929
from his thighs,
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until what is in store for him
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shall come, and
he is the expectation
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καὶ
αὐτὸς
προσδοκία. |
of the
nations.”
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Mark these words of
Jacob which
were spoken to
Judah, and are fulfilled in the
Lord. To the same
effect, moreover, does the
patriarch express himself regarding
Antichrist. Wherefore, as he prophesied with respect to
Judah, so
did he also with respect to his son
Dan. For
Judah was his fourth
son; and
Dan, again, was his seventh son. And what, then, did he
say of him? “Let
Dan be a
serpent sitting by the way, that
biteth the
horse’s heel?”
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And what
serpent was there but the
deceiver from the beginning, he who is named in Genesis, he who
deceived Eve, and bruised Adam in the heel?
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