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Testament of Benjamin 11
Benjamin prophesies that the tribe's ancient curse — the ravening wolf — inverts into a covenant calling: a descendant will arise in the latter times, beloved of Jehovah, who carries light-knowledge to the Gentiles and simultaneously tears salvation away from hardened Israel like a wolf, delivering it to the nations. This figure is inscribed in holy books, chosen of God forever, and fulfills Jacob's word that Benjamin's seed would complete what was lacking in the tribe — a servant-type pattern, one voice heard across the Gentile synagogues until the consummation of the ages.
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And I shall no longer be called a ravening wolf on account of your ravages, but a worker of the Lord, distributing food to them that work what is good. And one shall rise up from my seed in the latter times, beloved of the Lord, hearing upon the earth His voice, enlightening with new knowledge all the Gentiles, bursting in upon Israel for salvation with the light of knowledge, and tearing it away from it like a wolf, and giving it to the synagogue of the Gentiles. And until the consummation of the ages shall he be in the synagogues of the Gentiles, and among their rulers, as a strain of music in the mouth of all; and he shall be inscribed in the holy books, both his work and his word, and he shall be a chosen one of God for ever; and because of him my father Jacob instructed me, saying, He shall fill up that which lacketh of thy tribe.
