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:
Pr. 22:14 NLT The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous trap; those who make the LORD angry will fall into it.
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 newer and better 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.”
GNT Translation
note:
Pro. 22:13 Lazy people stay at home; they say[,
“A//a] lion might get [me if I//them if they] go
outside[!/.]