His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
The words about eyes red with wine and teeth white with milk belong to Jacob's dying testimony to his sorrowing sons as part of his inspired prophecy concerning Judah. He did not speak from an unforgiving spirit, for he had forgiven his children's wrongs and loved them to the last, having mourned deeply the loss of Joseph and grieved when Simeon was retained in Egypt while anxiously desiring his children's safe return with Simeon. Left to his own affectionate paternal feeling he would have uttered only love and tenderness, but in his last hours God elevated his mind above natural feeling, with angels around him and the power of grace shining upon him, so that he uttered inspired truth under the spirit of prophecy even when it was painful.
In contrast to his gloomy words to Simeon and Levi, which set forth God's view of their deeds of violence and that He would punish them for their sins, his words to Judah and his other sons were joyful and not as gloomy. That joyful prophecy concerning Judah predicts a future extending to Christ. Beyond its place in that prophecy, the imagery of eyes and teeth receives no separate explanation.
The words about eyes red with wine and teeth white with milk belong to Jacob's dying testimony to his sorrowing sons as part of his inspired prophecy concerning Judah. He did not speak from an unforgiving spirit, for he had forgiven his children's wrongs and loved them to the last, having mourned deeply the loss of Joseph and grieved when Simeon was retained in Egypt while anxiously desiring his children's safe return with Simeon. Left to his own affectionate paternal feeling he would have uttered only love and tenderness, but in his last hours God elevated his mind above natural feeling, with angels around him and the power of grace shining upon him, so that he uttered inspired truth under the spirit of prophecy even when it was painful.
In contrast to his gloomy words to Simeon and Levi, which set forth God's view of their deeds of violence and that He would punish them for their sins, his words to Judah and his other sons were joyful and not as gloomy. That joyful prophecy concerning Judah predicts a future extending to Christ. Beyond its place in that prophecy, the imagery of eyes and teeth receives no separate explanation.