Deuteronomy 33:17 (WEB)
Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Fathers and councils · 5
Tertullian
“For Joseph is withal blest by his father after this form: “His glory (is that) of a bull; his horns, the horns of an unicorn; on them shall he toss nations alike unto the very extremity of the earth.”” — editor's note: This is an error. It is not “his father,” Jacob, but Moses, who thus blesses him. See Deut. xxxiii. 17. The same error occurs in adv. Marc. 1. iii. c. xxiii.
Read the whole comment“…in these words: “His glory is that of a bullock; his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them shall he push the nations to the very ends of the earth,”—he was not, of course, designated as a mere unicorn with its one horn, or a minotaur with two; but Christ was indicated in him—a bullock in respect of both His…” — editor's note: Deut. xxxiii. 17.
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Justin Martyr
“Let him be glorified among his brethren; his beauty is [like] the firstling of a bullock; his horns the horns of an unicorn: with these shall he push the nations from one end of the earth to another.’” — editor's note: Deut. xxxiii. 13–17.
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Ambrose of Milan
“They are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxiii. 16, 17.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And that all things are subject unto him, and that he is good, and that he has all things in himself, as in the horn of the one-horned bull; so as that he imparts beauty and bloom to all things that exist according to their own nature and peculiarity, as if passing through all, just as (“the river)…” — editor's note: Deut. xxxiii. 17.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 91.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.