Genesis 49:5 (WEB)
“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
Fathers and councils · 4
Tertullian
“He, again, will be the “bull” elsewhere too in the same scripture.” — editor's note: Not strictly “the same;” for here the reference is to Gen. xlix. 5–7.
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Justin Martyr
““And it was prophesied by Jacob the patriarch 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.” — editor's note: [Gen. xlix. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 24. These texts are frequently referred to by Justin.]
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. xlix. 5.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“For it might have been said that they were deservedly rejected; because even in the blessing of Jacob wherewith he blessed his sons, he mentioneth their sins, and deeply abhorreth them; though among them the tribe of Levi merited to be the priestly tribe, whence also Moses was.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 5.
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