Post-Apocalyptic / Dystopian / Romance / Fantasy / Fiction.This and the following book were reckoned by the Jews as one book, as appears by the Masoretic note at the end of the second book, and as is affirmed by Origen observes, of the first and only man, from whence mankind had their beginning, and whose history the author had undertaken to write. May we be distinguished as the Lord's people. Short is our passage through time into eternity. Ec. 1:4 Nu. 32:14, and will do so while the earth remains. As one generation, even of sinful men, passes away, another comes. Let us take occasion from reading these lists of names, to think of the multitudes that have gone through this world, have done their parts in it, and then quitted it. Verses 28-54 The genealogy is from hence confined to the posterity of Abraham. Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? ( Malachi 2:10 ). Only this we are sure of, that God has created of one blood all nations of men they are all descended from one Adam, one Noah.

But the nations now are all so mingled with one another, that no one nation, nor the greatest part of any, is descended entirely from any of one nation, nor the greatest part of any, is descended entirely from any of these fountains. The original of the Jewish nation is here traced from the first man that God created, and is thereby distinguished from the obscure, fabulous, and absurd origins assigned to other nations. When compared with other places, there are some differences found yet we must not therefore stumble at the word, but bless God that the things necessary to salvation are plain enough. Verses 1-27 This chapter, and many that follow, repeat the genealogies, or lists of fathers and children in the Bible history, and put them together, with many added. Historical facts passed over elsewhere, names, and the connexion of passages are to be found here, and many questions concerning the gospel are explained. Jerome says, that whoever supposes himself to have knowledge of the Scriptures without being acquainted with the books of Chronicles, deceives himself. In the SECOND BOOK the narrative is continued, and relates the progress and end of the kingdom of Judah also it notices the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity. The FIRST BOOK traces the rise of the Jewish people from Adam, and afterward gives an account of the reign of David. The books of Chronicles are, in a great measure, repetitions of what is in the books of Samuel and of the Kings, yet there are some excellent useful things in them which we find not elsewhere.

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