Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dan shall judge This was verified in Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan, and began to deliver Israel, Judges xiii. 5. But as this deliverance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy patriarch (ver. 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. (Haydock)
See St. Iren us, Against Heresies v. 30 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, Judges xviii. (Tirinus)
