Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

The ordinary theory as to the meaning of Benjamin is comparatively late, and seems doubtful. The Targum Jerushalmi (on Gen. xxxv. 18 ), and the Breshith Rabba , § 82, make Benjamin and Benoni synonymous. Cf. Josephus, Antiq ., i. 21. 3; Cyril, Glaph. in Gen ., lib. iv. With the view mentioned in the text, cf. Arethas on Rev. vii. 8 (Cramer’s Catena , viii. 289).

This would seem to be the earliest instance of the application of the word ἀναμάρτητος to our Lord.

[How could any Christian more fully testify to the Nicene Faith? So the Gloria in Excelsis .]

[ Matt. vi. 22; Luke xi. 34 .]

For ἑπτακοσίοις ἔτεσιν the Ox. ms. reads simply ἑπτά .

This would seem to be the meaning of πρῶτος ναός .

[ Rev. xx. 5, 6 . See p. 25, note 4, supra .]

Gen. xlix. 27 . This passage, referring to St. Paul (who was of the tribe of Benjamin, Rom. xi. 1; Phil. iii. 5 ), is quoted by Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem , v. 1. [See vol. iii. p. 430, this series.]

Compare Scorpiace , cap. 13 [with reference to Gen. xxv. 34 and xxvii. 25 , vol. iii. p. 646, this series. Lardner adds Origen, Hom. in Ezech ., iv. tom. iii. p. 731; Theodoret, in Gen. Quæst ., cx. tom. i. p. 77; and Augustine, Serm ., 279 (and passim ), tom. v. ed. Benedict.].

[“Mel in ore, melos in aure, melodia in corde.”— St. Bernard .]