Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ST. MATTHEW. 1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of Da- 2 vid, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat 3 Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren; And Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Thamar, and Pharez begat Esrom, and 4 Esrom begat Aram; and Aram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab 5 begat Naasson, and Naasson begat Salmon; and Salmon begat 6 Boaz of Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse; and Jesse begat David the king. ' 7 And David the king begat Solomon, of the wife of Uriah ; and Solomon begat Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begat Abijah, and Abijah 8 begat Asa; and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat 9 Jehoram, and Jehoram begat Uzziah : and Uzziah begat Jotham, and 10 Jotham begat Ahaz, and Ahaz begat Hezekiah, and Hezekiah begat Manasseth, and Manasseth begat Amon, and Amon begat Josiah: 11 and Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brethren, about the time they 12 were carried away to Babylon. And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begat Salathiel, and Salathiel begat Zerubbabel; 13 And Zerubbabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Eliakim, and Elia- Versc 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ?That is, strictly speaking, the account of his birth and genealogy. This title therefore properly relates to the verses that immediately follow : but as it sometimes signifies the history of a person, in that sense it may belong to the whole book. If there were any difficulties in this genealogy, or that given by St. Luke, which could not easily be removed, they would rather affect the Jewish tables, than the credit of the evangelists : for they act only as historians setting down these genealogies, as they stood in those public and allowed records. Therefore they were to take them as th...Read More