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21. That the Gentiles should rather
believe in Christ.
In Genesis: “And the Lord God said
unto Abraham, Go out from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father’s house, and go into that land which I shall show
thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless
thee, and I will magnify thy name; and thou shalt be blessed: and
I will bless him that blesseth thee, and I will curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be
blessed.”3894
On
this same point in Genesis: “And Isaac blessed
Jacob.3895
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The quotation in the Oxford edition begins from this point. |
Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a plentiful field which
the Lord hath blessed: and God give thee of the dew of heaven,
and of the fertility of the earth, abundance of corn, and wine, and
oil: and peoples shall obey thee, and princes shall worship
thee: and thou shalt be lord over thy brother, and the sons of
thy father shall worship thee; and he that curseth thee shall be
cursed, and he that blesseth thee shall be blessed.”3896
On this
matter too in Genesis: “But when Joseph saw that his father
placed his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it seemed displeasing to
him: and Joseph laid hold of his father’s hand, to lift it
from the head of Ephraim on to the head of Manasseh. Moreover,
Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: this is my
first-born; place thy right hand upon his head. But he would not,
and said, I know it, my son, I know it: and he also shall be a
people, and he shall be exalted; but his younger brother shall be
greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of
nations.”3897
Moreover in Genesis: “Judah, thy brethren shall praise
thee: thine hand shall be upon the back of thine enemies; the
sons of thy father shall worship thee. Judah is a lion’s
whelp: from the slender twig,3898
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“Frutice.” The Oxford translator has here, without
any authority as it appears, from the text, adopted the reading of the
Vulgate, “ad prædam.” Cyprian has used the LXX.,
reading apparently, ἐκ
βλαστοῦ. The Hebrew
ףרֶטֶּמִ
gives a colour to either reading. See Gesenius, Lex. in
voce ףרֶמֶ. [Elucidation X.] | my son, thou hast ascended:
thou layedst down and sleepedst as a lion, and as a lion’s
whelp. Who shall stir him up? There shalt not fail a prince
from Judah, and a leader from his loins, until those things entrusted
to him shall come; and he is the hope of the nations: binding his
foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the branch of the
vine;3899
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Original, “ad cilicium;” LXX. τῆ ἕλικι, “the
tendril of the vine;” Oxford trans. “the choice
vine.” | he shall
wash his garments in wine, and his clothing in the blood of the
grape: terrible are his eyes with wine, and his teeth are whiter
than milk.”3900
Hence in Numbers it is written concerning our people:
“Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion-like
people.”3901
In
Deuteronomy: “Ye Gentiles shall be for the head; but this
unbelieving people shall be for the tail.”3902
Also in Jeremiah: “Hear
the sound of the trumpet. And they said, We will not hear:
for this cause the nations shall hear, and they who shall feed their
cattle among them.”3903
In the seventeenth Psalm:
“Thou shalt establish me the head of the nations: a people
whom I have not known have served me: at the hearing of the ear
they have obeyed me.”3904
Concerning this very thing the
Lord says in Jeremiah: “Before I formed thee in the belly,
I knew thee; and before thou wentest forth from the womb, I sanctified
thee, and established thee as a prophet among the
nations.”3905
Also in
Isaiah: “Behold, I have manifested him for a witness to the
nations, a prince and a commander to the peoples.”3906
Also in the
same: “Nations which have not known Thee shall call upon
Thee; and peoples which were ignorant of Thee shall flee to
Thee.”3907
In the
same, moreover: “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall rise to rule in all the nations; in Him shall the Gentiles
hope: and His rest shall be honour.”3908
In the same again:
“The land of Zebulon, and the land of Nephtalim, by the way of
the sea, and ye others who inhabit the maritime places, and beyond
Jordan3909
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Oxford edition adds “Galilee.” | of the
nations. People that walk in darkness, behold ye a great light;
ye who dwell in the region of the shadow of death, the light shall
shine upon you.”3910
Also in the same: “Thus
saith the Lord God to Christ my Lord, whose right hand I hold, that the
nations may hear Him; and I will break asunder the strength of kings, I
will open before Him gates; and cities shall not be
shut.”3911
Also in the
same: “I come to gather together all nations and tongues;
and they shall come, and see my glory. And I will send out over
them a standard, and I will send those that are preserved among them to
the nations which are afar off, which have not heard my name nor seen
my glory; and they shall declare my glory to the
nations.”3912
Also in
the same: “And in all these things they are not converted;
therefore He shall lift up a standard to the nations which are afar,
and He will draw them from the end of the earth.”3913
Also in
the same: “Those who had not been told of Him shall see,
and they who have not heard shall understand.”3914
Also in the same: “I
have been made manifest to those who seek me not: I have been
formal of those who asked not after me. I said, Lo, here am I, to
a nation that has not called upon my name.”3915
Of this same thing, in the Acts of
the Apostles, Paul says: “It was necessary that the word of
God should first be shown to you; but since ye put it from you, and
judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the
Gentiles: for thus said the Lord by the Scriptures, Behold, I
have set Thee a light among the nations, that Thou shouldest be for
salvation even to the ends of the earth.”3916
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