This
chapter, and many that follow, repeat the genealogies, or
lists of fathers and children in the Bible history, and put
them together, with many added. When compared with
other places, there are some differences found; yet we must
not therefore stumble at the word, but bless God that the
things necessary to salvation are plain enough.
The
original of the Jewish nation is here traced from the first
man that God created, and is thereby distinguished from the
obscure, fabulous, and absurd origins assigned to other
nations. But the nations now are all so mingled with
one another, that no one nation, nor the greatest part of
any, is descended entirely from any of one nation, nor the
greatest part of any, is descended entirely from any of
these fountains.
Only this
we are sure of, that God has created of one blood all
nations of men; they are all descended from one Adam, one
Noah. Have we not all one father? Has not one
God created us? (Mal.2:10)
