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NASB | Matthew 1:17 ¶ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 1:17 ¶ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen; from David to the Babylonian deportation (exile), fourteen generations; and from the Babylonian deportation to the Messiah, fourteen generations. |
Subject: How many generations betw Exodus-Solomon |
Bible Note: Hi, Jim :: It has been now some 59 years since I became a follower of Christ. How many times have I erred, and in what ways, during all those years? Let me count the times. Let me count the ways, as poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning phrased it in a sonnet of love, a tender ode to her husband, Robert Browning. But I cannot count the times. They have been too frequent and too many. I cannot count the ways. They have been too numerous. ...... I lay no claim to wisdom save that which God has graciously granted me in answer to prayer, but that wisdom has led me to the abiding and fervent conviction that it is foolishness to lean on my incomplete and faulty understanding and to assume that the Holy Spirit has granted me insights superior to the insignts He has granted to others who down through the centuries have sought after His truth and even those regenerate contemporaries who now seek His counsel. Therefore, does it not make a great deal of sense to entertain the notion that some of my conclusions, when they consistently conflict with men of God down through the ages, may be wrong -- and the probabilites are overwhelming that they are -- and that I earnestly need to look more at myself and my understanding than at them and theirs to disover wherein lies the error? Debate on an issue is worthless and bears no good fruit unless one first has thoroughly examined his position and compared it with others who may well be wiser, more enlightened, and better versed on the issue than one's self. --Hank |