Robert S. Candlish on Jacob's blessing of Judah, with reference to Shiloh/Christ (Studies in Genesis):
How much, or how little, [Jacob] knew of a previous coming of that illustrious one—to obey, and suffer, and die—we cannot tell. He knew at least that “without shedding of blood there is no remission,” and that “through much tribulation lies the entrance into the kingdom of heaven.” We who live now, under the partial realisation of Jacob’s great vision, know all that better than he could do. We know “Christ and him crucified.” We know Jesus, who was once crucified, as now exalted at the right hand of God. But do we fix our eye as steadfastly as Jacob did on what is our hope now;—the fuller realisation of this vision at the glorious appearing of the Lord from heaven? Do the words—“till Shiloh come”—cause our hearts to thrill as they did the heart of dying Jacob? Do we enter into the mind of him who, ages afterwards, as he closed the volume of the Revelation, exclaimed, “Even so come, Lord Jesus”?
