Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Bengel Commentary - Matthew 1:12 - 1:12
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat 1:12. μετὰ, after) sc. after he had migrated to Babylon.-Σαλαθιὴλ δὲ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ζοροβάβελ, but Salathiel begat Zorobabel) i.e., was the progenitor of; Pedaiah being the son of the former, and father of the latter. St Luke (Luk 3:27) mentions another Salathiel and Zorobabel, father and son, who must have lived about the same time with these.[16]
[16] D. Crusius explains the causes of this fact l. c. p. 369, 370, showing that the Zorobabel of Luke was a prince of Juda, and the associate (σύζυγον) of Joshua in the restoration, whereas the Zorobabel of Matthew was a private individual.-E. B.