Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I:
IRENÆUS: XVII.

XVII.

By these Christ was typified, and acknowledged, and brought into the world; for He was prefigured in Joseph: then from Levi and Judah He was descended according to the flesh, as King and Priest; and He was acknowledged by Simeon in the temple: through Zebulon He was believed in among the Gentiles, as says the prophet, “the land of Zabulon;” 4823 and through Benjamin [that is, Paul] He was glorified, by being preached throughout all the world. 4824

Footnotes

Isa. ix. 1.

Compare the statement of Clemens Romanus (page 6 of this volume), where, speaking of St. Paul, he says: “After preaching both in the east and west … having taught righteousness to the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of the west.”