Judah (1)

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey my son thou art gone up: he stooped down, he crouched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? Gen. 49:8 With a soul filled with horror and disgust, occa­sioned by the recollection of crimes long since per­petrated, Jacob shifts his gaze from the two sons he had been addressing to Judah. The...