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Mat 1:13. Ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἀβιοὺδ, begat Abiud) This is the same as Hodaiah,[17] who was in like manner descended from Zorobabel, through several intervening ancestors (see 1Ch 3:19; 1Ch 3:24), as Hiller explains in his Syntagmata, pp. 361, sqq., where he shows, that the Jews acknowledged the genealogy in the said passage of Chronicles to be that of the Messiah: nor, indeed, was it necessary that any other genealogy should have been carried further down there than that of the Messiah. There can, therefore, be no doubt but that the passage in question was particularly well known to the Jews; and there was, consequently, the less need that St Matthew should repeat it in extenso. In this generation, then, concludes the scripture of the Old Testament. The remainder of the genealogy was supplied by St Matthew from trustworthy documents of a later date, and, no doubt, of a public character.
[17] Or Hodajah, as in Bengel.