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Fragment 17

From whom Christ was fore-typified and acknowledged and born: for in Joseph...

From1 whom Christ was fore-typified and acknowledged and born: for in Joseph He was fore-typified, from Levi and Judah He was born after the flesh as King and Priest, through Symeon He was acknowledged in the Temple, through Zabulon He was believed on among the Gentiles,2 as the Prophet saith, The Land of Zabulon, through Benjamin (Paul) He preached unto all the world was glorified.


  1. l Extant in the Leipzig Catena, t. i, col. 1587. 

  2. 1 Tim. 3:16; Isa. 9:1.