Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 34:31

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 165, footnote 21 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

An Answer to the Jews. (HTML)

Concerning the Passion of Christ, and Its Old Testament Predictions and Adumbrations. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1335 (In-Text, Margin)

He, again, will be the “bull” elsewhere too in the same scripture. When Jacob pronounced a blessing on Simeon and Levi, he prophesies of the scribes and Pharisees; for from them is derived their origin. For (his blessing) interprets spiritually thus: “Simeon and Levi perfected iniquity out of their sect,”[Genesis 34:25-31] —whereby, to wit, they persecuted Christ: “into their counsel come not my soul! and upon their station rest not my heart! because in their indignation they slew men”—that is, prophets—“and in their concupiscence they hamstrung a bull!” —that is, Christ, whom—after the slaughter of prophets—they slew, and exhausted their savagery by transfixing ...