17.  My statement, however, promised to declare Cat. xii. 5.  For εὑρεῖν the recent Editors with mss. A.R.C. and Grodecq. have ἐρεῖν. also the time of the Saviour’s and the place:  and I must not go away convicted of falsehood, but rather send away the Church’s novices νεήλυδας· well assured.  Let us therefore inquire the time when our Lord came:  because His coming is recent, and is disputed:  and because Christ Jesus is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever Heb. xiii. 8.  Cyril is supposed to refer to two objections to the Incarnation, one founded on the lateness of Christ’s coming, the other on the Divine immutability.  But the meaning of the passage is not clear, and the construction of the second sentence is incomplete..  Moses then, the prophet, saith, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me Deut. xviii. 15; Acts vii. 37.:  but let that “like unto me” be reserved awhile to be examined in its proper place ἐξεταζόμενον , a clear instance of the Gerundive, or quasi-Future, sense of the Present Participle, common in Cyril.  “This intention is not fulfilled in the sequel of these Lectures” (R.W.C.)..  But when cometh this Prophet that is expected?  Recur, he says, to what has been written by me:  examine carefully Jacob’s prophecy addressed to Judah:  Judah, thee may thy brethren praise, and afterwards, not to quote the whole, A prince shall not fail out of Judah, nor a ruler from his loins, until He come, for whom it is reserved; and He is the expectation, not of the Jews but of the Gentiles Gen. xlix. 8, 10..  He gave, therefore, as a sign of Christ’s advent the cessation of the Jewish rule.  If they are not now under the Romans, the Christ is not yet come:  if they still have a prince of the race of Judah and of David According to Cyril (§ 19, below) and other Fathers, the continuance of Jewish rulers ceased on the accession of Herod an Idumean.  Compare Justin M. (Tryphon §§ 52, 120); Eusebius (Demonstr. Evang. VIII. 1).  On modern interpretations of the passage see Delitzsch (New Commentary on Genesis), Briggs (Messianic Prophecy, p. 93), Cheyne (Isaiah, Vol. II. p. 189), Driver (Journal of Philology, No. 27, 1885)., he is not yet come that was expected.  For I am ashamed to tell of their recent doings concerning those who are now called Patriarchs A full and interesting account of the Jewish Patriarchs of the West established at Tiberias from the time of Antoninus Pius till the close of the 4th century is contained in Dean Milman’s History of the Jews, Vol. III.  Compare Epiphanius (Hæres. xxx. § 3 ff.). among them, and what their descent is, and who their mother:  but I leave it to those who know.  But He that cometh as the expectation of the Gentiles, what further sign then hath He?  He says next, Binding his foal unto the vine Gen. xlix. 11..  Thou seest that foal which was clearly announced by Zachariah Zech. ix. 9, quoted above, § 10..