Anf-01 viii.iv.lii Pg 2
[Bible:Gen.49.11 Bible:Gen.49.18 Bible:Gen.49.24">Gen. xlix. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 24. These texts are frequently referred to by Justin.]
that there would be two advents of Christ, and that in the first He would suffer, and that after He came there would be neither prophet nor king in your nation (I proceeded), and that the nations who believed in the suffering Christ would look for His future appearance. And for this reason the Holy Spirit had uttered these truths in a parable, and obscurely: for,” I added, “it is said, ‘Judah, thy brethren have praised thee: thy hands [shall be] on the neck of thine enemies; the sons of thy father shall worship thee. Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the germ, my son, thou art sprung up. Reclining, he lay down like a lion, and like [a lion’s] whelp: who shall raise him up? A ruler shall not depart from Judah, or a leader from his thighs, until that which is laid up in store for him shall come; and he shall be the desire of nations, binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his ass to the tendril of the vine. He shall wash his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of the grape. His eyes shall be bright with2113 2113 Or, “in comparison of.”
wine, and his teeth white like milk.’2114 2114
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxxvi Pg 2
[Myrrh. Christ the (Anointed) Rock is also referred to by Jacob (Gen. xlix. 24).]
or of any other compounded sweet balsams, had reference to Him, we have also proved,2287 2287 In chap. lxiii. probably, where the same Psalm is quoted.
inasmuch as the word says: ‘Therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.’2288 2288 *marg:
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xxiv Pg 44
Anf-01 vi.ii.xiii Pg 8
Gen. xlviii. 18.
And Jacob said, “I know it, my son, I know it; but the elder shall serve the younger: yet he also shall be blessed.”1637 1637
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 29
VERSE (32) - Ge 35:22; 37:21,22,29; 42:22,27; 46:8,9; 49:3,4 1Ch 5:1