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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 49:10 - 49:10
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until Shiloh come - Shiloh - this obscure word is variously interpreted to mean “the sent” (Joh 17:3), “the seed” (Isa 11:1), the “peaceable or prosperous one” (Eph 2:14) - that is, the Messiah (Isa 11:10; Rom 15:12); and when He should come, “the tribe of Judah should no longer boast either an independent king or a judge of their own” [Calvin]. The Jews have been for eighteen centuries without a ruler and without a judge since Shiloh came, and “to Him the gathering of the people has been.”