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NASB | Genesis 15:16 "Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 15:16 "Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished)." [Josh 24:15] |
Subject: How long is a Biblical Generation ? |
Bible Note: Dear Biblicalman, I have always taken Josephus with a grain of salt – as I do with all extra-biblical writers – although, as a Jew, I take them with a kosher grain of salt. :-) I am familiar with the Biblical interpretive approach of Schleiermacher, Feuerbach, Strauss, et al. I find more salt than substance in higher criticism. Consequently, I will keep one Jewish historian employed by the Romans, over all the more contemporary European neo-protestant scholars combined. After all, it is a small thing to believe that Samuel was a prophet of God used by the Holy Spirit to pen a portion of Scripture; whereas the notion that Samuel was literate but unable to count, requires greater credulity than I can muster. Forgive me, but the straining of gnats comes easier than the swallowing of camels – my errant forefathers notwithstanding. In Him, Doc |