ao Z:di .4,8;ft. Perableofthe Pcrfianmo. taxrchy, A Conaerment;ay'upon theGOel Chap.!. And Salathiel begat Zorobabel] Who brought forth the head (tone of the fecond. Temple with fhoutings, crying Grace,Grace, unto it:.: He was a Chieftain in the firft year ofCyrus, Ezra:. z. and he lived to fee thebuilding of the Temple, about the firth year ofD ariru Nothacr, which is a matter of a hundred years be- tween. So he had a longer life then ordinary, which God grant- eth to Come, becaufe he hath fomething tobedone by them. A fhort life in fotne cafes is aMeiling, I King. 1 3,14. as grapes ga- thered afore theybe ripe, are freed from the violence of the wine- preffe : as lambs (lain before they begrown, efcape many florins and Tharp fhowres that others live to tafte of. Some wicked live long,that they may aggravate their judgement ; othersdiefooner, that they may haften ir. But they are blefked, that whether they live they live unto the Lord, or whether they die they dieun- to the Lord, and in the Lord, their works following them. Verfe r 3. AndZorobabel begat Abiud] S.Luke faith,Rhefis: Hence the diverfityofnumber and names. Matthew defcends by the pofterity ofAbiud: Luke, ofRhefa, down to lofeph. And Abiud begat Eliakim,. and Elia(im begat .Azor, &ç.] Thefe lived in thotecalamitous times of the people of God after the captivity : and were not Kings and Captains, as being held under by other Nations : but Lawgivers they were, as Jacobpro - phefied, and principali men among that people, till Shiloh came, Gen. 49. I o. Verfe 14. And Azor begat Sadoc, and Sadoc begat !Achim] Of chele and the reft, as the Scripture fers down nothingmore then their bare names, fo neither is there any Jewifh record, at thisday extant, of their acts. So many miferies they had one in the neck of another, that little liberty was left them to write: though I doubt not, but the pofterity of David were then careful- ly observed, by as manyas looktfor the confolation of Ifrael. But among the Jews,fince our Saviours time, after the fèaling up of the Babylontfn Talmud, that is, after the year ofLhrift Soo. to the year t000. there was little or uo:hing written, by reafon of the grievous calamities that fazed upon them. Verfe 15. wind Eliud begat Eleazar, &c.] Thefe might be private perfons, tome of them, as lofeph and Mary were : it be- ing the care aria en.feavour of the Herod:, and thole afore, that held the Jews in iu je Lion, to fuppreffe, as much as might be, thepofiericy of Da.'id : at leait to keep them in a lowcondition ; for
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