Genesis 49:27 (WEB)
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”
Fathers and councils · 5
Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. xlix. 27 “Benjamin is a ravening wolf; in the morning he shall devour still, and till evening he apportions food.”” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Hence even he, according to the prophecy sent before concerning him, “a wolf ravening, in the morning carrying off, and in the evening dividing morsels;” that is, first as persecutor carrying off unto death, afterwards as a preacher feeding unto life.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 27.
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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.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“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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