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Discourse on Eschatology

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Section 18

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XVIII.

As the Lord Jesus Christ made His sojourn with us in

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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

,

my

son

,

thou

art

gone

up

:

he

stooped

down

,

he

couched

as

a

lion

,

and

as

a

lion’s

whelp

:

who

shall

rouse

him

up

?

A

ruler

shall

not

depart

from

Judah

,

nor

a

leader

from

his

thighs

,

until

what

is

in

store

for

him

shall

come

,

and

he

is

the

expectation

of

the

nations

.

”

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

?

”

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

?

Notes

1
βλαστοῦ
2
σκύμνος.
3
ἄρχων.
4
ἡγουμενος.
5
ἐκ τῶν μηρῶν.
6
τὰ ἀποκείμενα.
7
καὶ αὐτὸς προσδοκία.
8
Gen. xlix. 8–10.
9
Gen. xlix. 17.
10
πτερνίσας.