Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
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Apringius of Beja

AD 600
has prevailed to open the book. because He is the Creator of all things and the wonderful Sustainer of everything.
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Apringius of Beja

AD 600
one of the ancients. this signifies the message of holy Scripture.
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Bede

AD 735
weep not. He is forbidden to weep, because even then had been fulfilled in the Passion of Christ the mystery which long lay hidden, when, as He yielded up His spirit, the veil of the temple was rent.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Behold the lion, of the tribe of Juda viz. Jesus Christ, who was descended from that tribe, denominated a lion on account of his great power, by which title we find him designated also in the prophecy of Jacob. (Genesis xlix. 9.) (Calmet) -- It is he who has merited by his triple victory over death, sin, and hell, the great honour of opening the book, and revealing the secrets therein contained.
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Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
behold the lion. the lion has magnanimity; it has also ferocity; by its magnanimity then it represents the Lord. (Morals 5.21)
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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235
6. Now, as our Lord Jesus Christ, who is also God, was prophesied of under the figure of a lion,
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Nicholas of Lyra

AD 1349
lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David. That is, descending from the root of David according to the flesh, as it was prophesied in Is. 11, “A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
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Nicholas of Lyra

AD 1349
one of the ancients. Who this elder was is not said. Some say that he was Matthew, the evangelist.
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Oecumenius

AD 990
That the Lord according to his humanity arose from Judah, the divine apostle is witness when he said, “For it is evident that our Lord Jesus Christ has risen from Judah (Heb. 7:14).” One might be surprised that he did not say of him, “A shoot from the root of Jesse,” or “A flower sprung up from the root,” as Isaiah said (Isa. 11:1), but he called him a root of David. He says this to show that according to his human nature he was a shoot sprung from the root of Jesse and David; but according to his divine nature, he himself is the root, not only of David but of all visible and invisible creation, since he is the cause of the universe.

Paul of Bush

AD 1300
ancients. this is one of the rational, non-corporeal powers, members of the hierarchies, that is, the thrones.
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Rufinus of Aquileia

AD 411
behold the lion. the death of Christ marked the defeat and the triumph over the demons. In fact, our Lion had captured all the prey that the hostile lion had conquered after destroying and crushing the man. Then, by coming back from the underworld and ascending on high, he made slavery his captive. Therefore in his sleep the Lion won and defeated every evil and destroyed the one who had the power of death. (Blessing of the Patriarchs 1.6)
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Victorinus of Pettau

AD 303
We read in Genesis that this lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered, when the patriarch Jacob says, Judah, your brethren shall praise you; you have lain down and slept, and have risen up again as a lion, and as a lion's cub. Genesis 49:8-9 For He is called a lion for the overcoming of death; but for the suffering for men He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. But because He overcame death, and anticipated the duty of the executioner, He was called as it were slain. He therefore opens and seals again the testament, which He Himself had sealed. The legislator Moses intimating this, that it behooved Him to be sealed and concealed, even to the advent of His passion, veiled his face, and so spoke to the people; showing that the words of his announcement were veiled even to the advent of His time. For he himself, when he had read to the people, having taken the wool purpled with the blood of the calf, with water sprinkled the whole people, saying, This is the blood of His testament who has...
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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