...spoke by my servant Jacob, when he said, ' The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come • • and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.' I therefore now inform you by this, my servant, as I also did by my servant Wroe,...

...Jacob: when, speaking of Judah, he said, " The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." That is — when he should come, the supreme power should be dislodged from their...

...delivered by Jacob just before his death : ' The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be :' Gen. xlix. 10. There are so many interpretations of this prophecy, some peculiar...

...he blessed his children around him, " The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." Shiloh is by the Jews themselves acknowledged to be the Messiah ; and in their targums,...

...he whom thy brethren shall praise:" u the sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come;" " and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." And after he had spoken in a brief way of Zebulon, and Issachar, of Dan, of Gad,...

...passage relating to the sceptre of Judah : ' The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.' The promise to Abraham was, that he should be the ' father of many nations :' Gen....

...particular attention. Gen. xlix, 10 : " The sceptre .-•/»(/// not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." Judah, according to this prophecy, is to retain its authority, its rulers, judges,...

...Jacob ; which is thus ; Gen. xlix. 10. "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." There are thrice fourteen generations, as Matthew rehearsed them : from Abraham...

...which you are now to take notice of ; ' The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.' Now in this prophecy three tilings, I think, are plainly foretold ; first that the...

...fulfilling the prophecy of old Jacob, " The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be" (Gen. xlix. 10). Some have applied the words before us to Hezekiah, and among them...