“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Dan shall judge, and so forth This was verified in Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel. Judges 13:5. But as this deliverance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch (verse 18,) aspires after another kind of deliverer, saying: I will look for thy salvation, O Lord. Challoner.—Many have supposed, that Antichrist will be one of his descendants, which makes Jacob break out into this exclamation. Bible.—See Saint Irenaeus verse 30, and so forth Samson exercised his ingenuity in discomfiting the Philistines. But Antichrist will be far more subtle in deluding the faithful. Menochius.—The Danites took Lais; afterwards called Cæsarea Philippi, by stratagem. Judith 18. Tirinus.