Sep 8, 2022
1CHRONICLES 27-28:
Yesterday we heard of the assignments of
Levites as musicians, judges, and temple gate keepers.
PROVERBS 22a:
Our
highlighted verse for today:
14
The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous
trap;
those who make the
LORD angry will fall into it. (NLT)
MATTHEW 2:
For
today’s intro to Matthew 2, I have a correction from what I said in
this episode 251 before 2022. For this information, I am relying on
Leon Morris’ commentary. How come the genealogies of Matthew and
Luke are different? I have often heard it said that Matthew gives
the genealogy of Joseph (the legal father) and Luke gives that of
Mary, the actual genealogy. But that idea is unlikely. For one
reason, genealogies were never reckoned through the mother,
although as Morris says, “we must reckon with the fact that we have
no information about what would happen when there was no human
father.” But another problem with Luke giving Mary’s genealogy is
that he speaks of Jesus’ father as “Joseph the son of Heli” (Luke
3:23), which doesn’t sound at all like Luke is giving Mary’s
genealogy. Matthew says Joseph’s father was Jacob. There are
ingenious ways of explaining how Heli or Jacob could both be
correct, but all of that is pure speculation. Morris says this, and
I agree: “The best suggestion is that Matthew’s list represents the
legal descendants of David, those who would actually have reigned
had the kingdom continued, while Luke gives the descendants of
David in the line to which Joseph belonged. We have no way of being
certain.”
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