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The Testatments of the Twelve Patriarchs
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Introductory Notice to The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
[184] Cf. Gen. xlviii. 7, LXX.
XII.—The Testament of Benjamin Concerning a Pure Mind.
[185] 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).
[186] This would seem to be the earliest instance of the application of the word ἀναμάρτητος to our Lord.
[187] [How could any Christian more fully testify to the Nicene Faith? So the Gloria in Excelsis.]
[188] [Matt. vi. 22; Luke xi. 34.]
[189] For ἑπτακοσίοις ἔτεσιν the Ox. ms. reads simply ἑπτά.
[190] This would seem to be the meaning of πρῶτος ναός.
[191] [Rev. xx. 5, 6. See p. 25, note 4, supra.]
[192] 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.]
[193] Compare Scorpiace, cap. 13 [with reference to Gen. 25.34; 27.25, 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.].
[194] [“Mel in ore, melos in aure, melodia in corde.”—St. Bernard.]
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