Research Materials On Paul As The Benjamite Wolf of Prophecy

Two more sources from the early church besides Hippolytus -- Jerome and Tertullian -- thought Paul fulfilled the Benjamite Wolf prophecy in Genesis 49:27.

First, in a letter of Jerome to Marcella in 386 AD, it reads in part:

If the faith of the apostle Peter is shaken by Our Lord's passion, it is that amid his bitter tears he may hear the words: "Feed my sheep." Paul, that ravening wolf, that little Benjamin, is blinded in a trance, but as the result he gains clear vision, and from the sudden horror of darkness around him calls upon Him as Lord whom in the past he persecuted as man.

Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Epistulae (ed. Isidorus Hilberg) (New York: Johnson, 1970, repr.1910-18) 3 Vols.; ep.38. The translation and annotation from F.A.Wright, Select Letters of St. Jerome (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933, repr.1980) at 158-67 (reprinted online at http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/308.html)

Tertullian in 207 A.D. in Against Marcion likewise saw Paul as fulfilling the prophecy in Genesis 49, but like others spins the second part to Paul's favor -- which positive spin is textually implausible from the Hebrew, as discussed in Jesus' Words Only (2007) at 335. Regardless, Tertullian wrote in 207 A.D.:

Because even the book of Genesis so long ago promised me the Apostle Paul. For among the types and prophetic blessings which he pronounced over his sons, Jacob, when he turned his attention to Benjamin, exclaimed, “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall impart  nourishment.” He foresaw that Paul would arise out of the tribe of Benjamin, a voracious wolf, devouring his prey in the morning: in order words, in the early period of his life he would devastate the Lord’s sheep, as a persecutor of the churches; but in the evening he would give them nourishment, which means that in his declining years he would educate the fold of Christ, as the teacher of the Gentiles. Tertullian, Latin Christianity: Its Founder Tertullian (ed. Philip Schaff)(1885) at 735 (PDF at 783)(downloaded from Christian Classics Ethereal Library at this link.)