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Genesis 49:8 (WEB)
“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Fathers and councils · 7

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 13
“…not fail out of Judah, nor a ruler from his loins, until He come, for whom it is reserved; and He is the expectation, not of the Jews but of the Gentiles.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 8, 10.
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Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 14
“Hail, Master; yet he was betraying his Master to death; he was not abashed at His warning, when He said, Judas, betrayest than the Son of Man with a kiss? for what He said to him was just this, Recollect thine own name; Judas means confession; thou hast covenanted, thou hast received the money, make confession quickly.” — editor's note: Cf. Phil. Jud. de Plantatione Noë, II § 33: “And his name was called Judah, which being interpreted is “confession to the Lord.” In Gen. xlix. 8 the name is…
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Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 52
““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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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 60
“What Juda, but He to whom Jacob himself said, “Juda, thy brethren shall praise thee”?” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVI.41Book XVI
“Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s foal to the choice vine; he shall wash his robe in wine, and his clothes in the blood of the grape: his eyes are red with wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 8–12.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.22Book I
“…the vine; he shall wash his garments in wine, and his clothing in the blood of the grape: terrible are his eyes with wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 8–12.
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Hippolytus of Rome, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist
“Now, as our Lord Jesus Christ, who is also God, was prophesied of under the figure of a lion, on account of His royalty and glory, in the same way have the Scriptures also aforetime spoken of Antichrist as a lion, on account of his tyranny and violence.” — editor's note: Rev. v. 5; [also Gen. xlix. 8. See below, 7, 8].
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