Judah [is] a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Ver. 9. Judah is a lion's whelp.] Many lionlike Lysimachusses came of this tribe, that, as Samson and David, first fought with lions, and then with their enemies; all which were types of that "Lion of the tribe of Judah," Revelation 5:5. The devil is a roaring lion, Leo ωρυομενος, lies in wait a for the Church: but Christ, her invincible champion, is ever at hand for her help, b who is also Leo ο ρυομενος, as St Paul hath it, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, "that delivereth us from the wrath to come." 1Th 1:10 And when this lion roareth, all creatures tremble. Amo 3:8 St Ambrose tells us that when the lion puts forth his voice, many creatures that could outrun him are so astonished at the terror of his roars, that they are not able to stir from the place. And Isidore writeth, that the lion's whelp, for the first three days after it comes into the world, lieth as it were asleep, and is afterwards roused and raised by the old lions' roaring, which makes the very den to shake. Christ, at the last day, shall come with the voice of the archangel, and trump of God, &c. And then shall they "that sleep in the dust of death awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting horror and amazement." Dan 12:2
a In insidiis.
b In subsidiis.