. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . able of genealogy. Allthat could be done was, to go to thefamily records—to the public tables, andcopy them as they were actually kept,and show that, according to the recordsof the nation, Jesus was descended fromDavid. This, among the Jews, wasfull and decided testimony in the this was doubtless done. In thesame way, the records of a family amongus, as they are kept by the family, areproof in courts of justice now, of thebirth, names, &c., of individuals. Noris it necessary or
. Notes, explanatory and practical, on the Gospels: designed for Sunday school teachers and Bible classes . able of genealogy. Allthat could be done was, to go to thefamily records—to the public tables, andcopy them as they were actually kept,and show that, according to the recordsof the nation, Jesus was descended fromDavid. This, among the Jews, wasfull and decided testimony in the this was doubtless done. In thesame way, the records of a family amongus, as they are kept by the family, areproof in courts of justice now, of thebirth, names, &c., of individuals. Noris it necessary or proper for a court tocall them in question, or to attempt tocorrect them. So the tables here aregood evidence to the only point that thewriters wished to establish: that is,to show to the Jews that Jesus of Naza-reth was descended from David. Allthat can be asked 7iow is, whether theycopied the tables of those families cor-rectly. It is clear that no man canprove that they did not so copy them,and, therefore, that no one can adducethem as an argument against the cor-rectness of the New 20 MATTHEW. [A. M. 4000. Sadoc begat Achim; and Achimbegat Eliud ; 15 And Eliud begat Eleazar;and Eleazar begat Matthan; andMatthan begat Jacob; 16 And Jacob begat Joseph thehusband of Mary, of whom wasborn Jesus, who is called Christ. 17 So all the generations from 17. All the generations, &c. Thisdivision of the names in their genealogywas doubtless adopted for the purposeof aiding the memory. It was commonamong the Jews ; and other similar in-stances are preserved. They were des-titute of other books beside the OldTestament, and had but few copies ofthat among them, and those chiefly intheir synagogues. They would, there-fore, naturally devise plans to keep upthe remembrance of the principal factsin their history. One method of doingthis was, to divide the tables of genea-logy into portions of equal length, to becommitted to memory. This greatlyfacilitated the remembrance of then
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