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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
What the prophets said about the suffering of Christ is known, and it is needless to speak of it; but what Moses foretold is evident from what he said as if from the person of Jacob to Judah: "He stooped down, he lay down as a lion… who shall rouse him?" (Gen. 49:9). Here he means the death and resurrection of Christ. But Moses also foretold of the suffering: "Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee" (Deut. 28:66).
Oecumenius
"saying nothing except what the prophets said." For fear that he himself be thought the teacher of this, he cites the prophets and Moses, saying, "that Christ, if he was to suffer, and if he was to be first from the resurrection of the dead," and what follows. But the phrase "if" (εἰ), instead of "that" (ὅτι), means "is." Moses, he said, declared that Christ would be the first to undergo resurrection. …
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