Komentaryo ng kabanata
1 Chronicles Kabanata 1
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1CH 1:1
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1CH 1:17
1 Chronicles 1:17. And Lud, and Aram, and Uz— Lud and Aram. The sons of Uz, &c. Houbigant. See Genesis 10:23.
REFLECTIONS.—Adam begins and Abraham closes this first genealogical line. The one, our common father after the flesh; the other, the common father of the faithful. By the guilt of Adam's sin, the universal curse descended on man: by Abraham's promised seed, the curse is removed; and all who believe on him are re-instated in the favour of God.
The line of Christ, for whose sake the rest are preserved, reaches in the four first verses as far as Shem; and from him, in the four last, to Abraham: the others are more lightly passed over. Japhet's posterity originally peopled Europe; Ham's, Africa, Canaan, and Philistia; Shem's posterity, Asia; and, probably, from the northern parts of Asia, America received its first inhabitants. Note; As we are originally of one stock, we should, undoubtedly love all mankind as brethren.
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1CH 1:32
1 Chronicles 1:32. Now the sons of Keturah, &c.— These sons of Keturah. Keturah, Abraham's concubine, bare Zimran, &c. Houb.
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1 Chronicles 1:1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh— Adam was the father of Sheth, and Sheth the father of Enosh, and so on to the sons of Noah. No mention is made of the posterity of Cain or Abel, nor of the other sons of Adam, because the sacred writer was only engaged to give a detail of the Patriarchs in the direct line from Adam to Noah. The history of the Bible was not designed as a history of the world, but a history of the church, and of the deduction of the sacred promise of the seed of the woman.
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