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Genesis 49:27

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Genesis 49:27 (WEB)

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

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Hippolytus of Rome

Augustine of Hippo

Jerome

  • “If Paul, that ravening wolf, that little Benjamin, is blinded in a trance, it is that he may receive his sight, and may be led, by the sudden horror of surrounding darkness, to call Him Lord Whom before he persecuted as man.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 27.

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  • “Paul, the persecutor of the church, who is in the morning the ravening wolf of Benjamin, in the evening “gave food,” that is yields himself up to the sheep Ananias.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 27.

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  • “Paul the persecutor of the church, that ravening wolf out of Benjamin, bows his head before Ananias one of Christ’s sheep, and only recovers his sight when he applies the remedy of baptism.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 27.

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