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Heb 7:14. Πρόδηλον) it is manifest. Therefore, at that time the genealogy of Jesus Christ laboured under no difficulty; and this very circumstance entirely sweeps away the difficulties that afterwards arose. It is both evident and sufficient, that this point was formerly clear.-ἐξ Ἰούδα, from Judah) See Luk 1:27; Luk 1:39, note, and ch. Heb 2:4-5. For the Tribe is what is particularly referred to; not, however, to the exclusion of the city where our Lord was born, Bethlehem-Judah; nay, even there is reference to Hebron, a city of Judah, where Lightfoot says, in Chron. N. T. Part I. sect. 3 and 4, and in Harmon. evangel. on Luk 1:39, that it is very probable He was conceived.-ὅτι ἀνατέταλκεν, that our Lord sprang) as the Branch (ἀνατολὴ) of Righteousness.-εἰς ἥν) in respect of which. So εἰς, Eph 5:32; 1Pe 1:11.