* thirty.
Ge 41:46 Nu 4:3,35,39,43,47
* being.
4:22 Mt 13:55 Mr 6:3 Joh 6:42
* which.
The real father of Joseph was Jacob (Mt 1:16); but having
married the daughter of Heli, and being perhaps adopted by
him, he was called his son, and as such was entered in the
public registers; Mary not being mentioned, because the
Hebrews never permitted the name of a woman to enter the
genealogical tables, but inserted her husband as the son of
him who was, in reality, but his father-in-law. Hence it
appears that Matthew, who wrote principally for the Jews,
traces the pedigree of Jesus Christ from Abraham, through whom
the promises were given to the Jews, to David, and from David,
through the line of Solomon, to Jacob the father of Joseph,
the reputed or legal father of Christ; and that Luke, who
wrote for the Gentiles, extends his genealogy upwards from
Heli, the father of Mary, through the line of Nathan, to
David, and from David to Abraham, and from Abraham to Adam,
who was the immediate "son of God" by creation, and to whom
the promise of the Saviour was given in behalf of himself and
all his posterity. The two branches of descent from David, by
Solomon and Nathan, being thus united in the persons of Mary
and Joseph, Jesus the son of Mary re-united in himself all the
blood, privileges, and rights, of the whole family of David;
in consequence of which he is emphatically called "the Son of
David."
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