How does Luke's list differ from Matthew's [11] in the order of the names? How much farther back than Matthew does he trace the genealogy? 34-38. Comp. Matt. 1: 2.

      Where did Luke find the names from Abraham back to Noah? 34-36. Comp. Gen. xi: 10-26. What name does he give that is not found in our copy of Genesis? 36. Comp. Gen. xi: 12. Why did he insert this name? Ans.--Luke wrote in Greek and copied from the Greek translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint, which has the name Cainan between Arphaxad and Salah. If the Greek translation is wrong in having this name, why did Luke copy it? Ans.--It is not certain that the Greek translation is wrong. It may be that the name has been accidentally lost out of the Hebrew copy.

      Where did Luke find the names from Noah to Adam? 36-38. Comp. Gen v.

      Is there any difference between Luke's list and Matthew's from Abraham to David? 31-34. Comp. Matt. i: 2-6.

      From which son of David does each writer trace the remainder of his list? 31. Comp. Matt. i: 6. Was Nathan a king? Does Luke, then, like Matthew, trace the line by which David's throne was inherited?

      In what names do the two lines of David's posterity meet? 27. Comp. Matt. i: 12. How could this be? Ans.--By the marriage of a descendant of Solomon to a descendant of Nathan.

      How could Salathiel be a son of Jechonias as Matthew says (i: 12), and at the same time a son of Neri, as Luke says, verse 27? Ans.--The Hebrews used the? word son not only for what we call a son but for son-in-law, [12] grandson, etc. He was the literal son of Jechoniah, as we know from the fact that Matthew traces the line of the inheritance which always descended to sons and not to sons-in-law. Being, then a son of Jechonias, he must have been what we call son-in-law to Neri.

      Where, then, did the intermarriage take place between the two dines of David's offspring? Ans.--Salathiel, a literal descendant of Solomon, married a daughter of Neri, who descended from Nathan.

      Where do the two lines part again? 27. Comp. Matt. i: 13. Why do they part here? Ans.--As Matthew traces the line of inheritance, Abiud, whom he selects, must have been the heir, and consequently the oldest son of Zorobabel; while Rhesa, whom Luke selects, was the progenitor of the remainder of Luke's list.

      Where do the two lines meet again? 23. Comp. Matt. i: 16. How could Joseph be the son of both Jacob and Heli? Ans.--In the same way that Salathiel was the son of both Jechonias and Neri. He was son, as we say, of Jacob, and son-in-law of Heli. Whose daughter, then, was Mary, the wife of Joseph?

      Through what line, then, did Jesus, the son of Mary, receive the blood of David? Through Luke's or Matthew's? As this line is traced from David's son Nathan who was not a king, does it prove Jesus to be the heir of David's throne? What, then, is the essential difference between these two genealogies? Ans.--Matthew traces the inheritance of David's throne down to Jesus by a line which brought him none of David's blood; [13] while Luke traces blood of David to Jesus by a line which brought him no inheritance. By the two combined the proof is furnished that Jesus was the son and the heir of David according to God's promise.

[FBL 11-14]