...poetic diction in which it had been uttered. Take the blessing on Judah, quoted in our last paper : " Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise...gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from...

...of Levi will I distribute that they may preside in the assemblies among the sons of Israel.' V. 8. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise...thy father's children shall bow down before thee. to involve a paranornasia, or what would ba termed in English a play upon words in respect to the name...

...for it was cruel : I will divide thum in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 *! Jvuluh, thou art ha whom thy brethren shall praise ; thy hand shall be...thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judiih is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gunc up: ho stooped down, ho couched as...

...pronounced over them by their father Jacob, before his death; where, of Judah it it is said, Gen. xlix. 9> "Judah is a lion's whelp : from the prey, my son,...gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up? " From this prophecy, no doubt, the lion came to be the standard...

...emblem, Jesus Christ is represented; alluding to the prophetic benediction of the patriarch Jacob — " Judah is a lion's whelp : from the prey, my son, thou...gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre," he adds, " shall not depart from Judah, nor...

...scatter them in Israel. . s 8 IT Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise ; thy hand sliatt ecause of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall 'be his uncleanness in his issu 9 Judah is a lion's whelp ; from tie prey, my son, thou art gone up '. ne stooped down, he couched...

...xlix. 10, 11, when he called his sons together, he said to Judah, when he prophesied to them all ; ' Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise ; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies ; thy father's children shall bow down before thee ; the sceptre shall...

...prophesied to them all ; ' Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise ; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies ; thy father's children shall bow down before thee ; the sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet till Shilo come, and...

...children of Israel which came into Egypt ; Jacob and his sons, &c. &c. Ge. xlvi. 8, &c. Judah, thou art lu unto him, Se eon, thou art gone up ; he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse...

...and people shall flow unto it." (Mic. iv. 1.) And thus the blessing of Judah is plainly intelligible: "Judah thou art he, whom thy brethren shall praise...thy father's children shall bow down before thee." (Gen. xlix. 8.) Thou shall obtain the primogeniture of thy brother Reuben, and by virtue thereof shall...