Numbers 24:8

The oracle in the previously quoted prophecy, in saying that the Lord would come into Egypt, foretold the journey of our Lord Jesus Christ when he went into Egypt with his parents. Here we have the prophecy of his return from Egypt in its natural order, when he came back with his parents into the land of Israel, in the words "God led him out of Egypt." For our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Christ of God, was the only one of the seed of Israel and of the Jewish race who has rule over many nations, so that it is indisputable that he is the fulfillment of the prophecy which says, literally, "that a man will come from the Jewish race and rule over many nations." If he is not, let him who will suggest some other famous man among the Hebrews who has ruled over many nations. But this he cannot do, for such a man never existed. But with regard to our Savior, truth itself will shout and cry aloud, even if we say nothing. This shows plainly that his divine power has ruled, through the human he took of the seed of Israel according to the flesh, and even now will rule many nations.

After these things it is further written concerning Christ that: "God led him out of Egypt," which seems to be fulfilled in that place where, after the death of Herod, he is called back from Egypt, and the Gospel indicates it, saying: "Out of Egypt I called my son." This saying seems to some to have been taken from this passage and inserted into the Gospels, but to others to be from the prophet Hosea. Yet it can also be understood according to allegory, that, after he came to the Egypt of this world, the Father led him out and took him up to himself, so that he might make a way for those who were to ascend out of the Egypt of this world to God. "And the glory of a unicorn is his." For Christ, casting down all the kingdoms of the demons, founded his one kingdom in glory, as of a true unicorn. For that horn is often named for a kingdom we have taught. "He shall eat," he says, speaking still of the same one, "the nations of his enemies, and shall gnaw out their marrow." The nations, he says, which his enemies possessed, he himself shall eat, the power of the enemy having been destroyed, and shall gnaw out their marrow, when he thins out from them all gross and carnal understanding and converts it to spiritual intelligence. And that grossness is held blameworthy in the Scriptures, that which is written will be the sign: "The heart of this people has been made gross," and elsewhere: "He was filled, and grew gross, and the beloved kicked back." He shall eat the nations, therefore, and he has for food those who believe in him, just as he himself also says in the Gospel: "My food is to do the will of him who sent me." Whose will indeed was this, that the nations should be converted to the faith. But if, as we taught above, grossness is held blameworthy, on the contrary fineness is to be held praiseworthy, since the "spirit of wisdom" too, which is called intelligible and holy and only-begotten and manifold, is likewise reported to be subtle. "And with his darts he shall shoot the enemy." His darts are his words, by which he either conquered the devil or overcomes and transfixes even now all his enemies and those who contradict him; for everyone who sins is his enemy, while he sins. But if he hears the words of God and, recognizing his sins, is transfixed by them and pierced with compunction and turns to repentance, having been bored through by the word of truth, he…