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\subsection{\Matthew 1}
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\subsubsection{The Genealogy of \Iesous the Anointed [One]}
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\VS{1} The scroll%
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\footnote{BIBLOS: The word comes from byblos, which denoted the papyrus plant that grew in marshes or river banks, primarily along the Nile. Writing material was made from the papyrus plant by cutting the pith of the plant in one foot strips and setting it in the sun to dry. The strips were then laid in horizontal rows with rows of vertical strips glued to the horizontal rows in a criss-cross fashion similar to the way plywood is constructed today. The horizontal rows were smoother and became the writing surface. Sections of these strips were glued together to form a scroll up to thirty feet in length.
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\fnPar
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Books as we know them weren't invented until sometime
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in the 2$^{nd}$ through 4$^{th}$ centuries.
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Thus, in the 1$^{st}$ century they would still have been using scrolls.
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}
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of [the] lineage of \Iesous the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One],
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son of \David son of \Abraam:
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\begin{translatornote}
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If you look up the names in this list, there are ancestors between the people in this list.
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For example, Matthew 1:8 goes straight from Joram to Uzziah.
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But 1 Chronicles 3:11-12 shows three kings descended from each other:
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Ahaziah → Joash (his son) → Amaziah (Joash's son) → Uzziah/Azariah (Amaziah's son,
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called both names in Kings and Chronicles).
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So it's not three unrelated kings shoved in — it's four consecutive generations that
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Matthew compresses into the one link "Joram the father of Uzziah,"
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skipping three full generations at once.
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So the 14 per group is considered to be more of a 'memory aid' than an exact geneaological list.
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By the way, the gematria value of `David' is 14. In both ancient Greek and Hebrew,
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the letters of the alphabet also served as numerical digits. (Whereas now we have one
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set of alphabetic characters: A-Z and a-z, and a separate set of numeric characters: 0-9. )
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So words/names could be --- and were --- interpreted as numbers
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\end{translatornote}
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\VS{2} \Abraam begat\fnGennao{} \Isaac, \\
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and \Isaac begat \Jacob\fnJacob{}, \\
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and \Jacob\fnJacob{} begat \Judah and his brothers, \\
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\VS{3} and \Judah begat Phar\'{e}s \\
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and Z\'{a}ra by Tham\'{a}r\footnote{Gen.38:12--19}, \\
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and Phar\'{e}s begat Hesrṓm, \\
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and Hesrṓm begat Ar\'{a}m, \\
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\VS{4} and Ar\'{a}m begat Aminad\'{a}b, \\
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and Aminad\'{a}b begat Naass\'{o}n, \\
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and Naass\'{o}n begat Salm\={o}n, \\
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\VS{5} and Salm\={o}n begat B\'{o}es by Rach\'{a}b\footnote{Josh.2:1}, \\
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and B\'{o}es begat \={O}bḗd by Ro\'{u}th\footnote{Ruth 3:1--14}, \\
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and \={O}bḗd begat Iessa\'{i}, \\
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\VS{6} and Iessa\'{i} begat King \David.
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And \David begat \Solomon by the [wife] of Our\'{i}as\footnote{2 Sam.11:2--5}. \\
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\VS{7} And \Solomon begat Robo\'{a}m, \\
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and Robo\'{a}m begat Abi\'{a}, \\
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and Abi\'{a} begat As\'{a}ph, \\
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\VS{8} and As\'{a}ph begat I\={o}saph\'{a}t, \\
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and I\={o}saph\'{a}t begat I\={o}r\'{a}m, \\
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and I\={o}r\'{a}m begat Oz\'{i}as, \\
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\VS{9} and Oz\'{i}as begat I\={o}ath\'{a}m, \\
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and I\={o}ath\'{a}m begat Ach\'{a}z, \\
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and Ach\'{a}z begat Hezek\'{i}as, \\
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\VS{10} and Hezek\'{i}as begat Manass\={e}s, \\
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and Manass\={e}s begat Amṓs, \\
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and Amṓs begat I\={o}s\'{i}as, \\
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\VS{11} and I\={o}s\'{i}as begat
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\footnote{ insert ``Ioachim; and Ioachim begat'' few
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(It won't be fourteen generations if this reading is included. See vs. 17);
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as the text reads: \sinaiticus{}BW \vulgate{} \koine{}\hesychian{} all}
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Iechon\'{i}as and his brothers in the time of the Babulṓnos\footnote{Babylonian} exile.
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\VS{12} After the Babulṓnos exile, Iechon\'{i}as begat Salathiḗl, \\
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and Salathiḗl begat Zorobab\'{e}l, \\
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\VS{13} and Zorobab\'{e}l begat Abi\'{u}d, \\
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and Abi\'{u}d begat Eliak\'{i}m, \\
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and Eliak\'{i}m begat Azṓr, \\
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\VS{14} and Azṓr begat Sadṓk, \\
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and Sadṓk begat Eliak\'{i}m, \\
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and Eliak\'{i}m begat Eli\'{u}d, \\
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\VS{15} and Eli\'{u}d begat Eliaz\'{a}r, \\
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and Eliaz\'{a}r begat Matth\'{a}n, \\
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and Matth\'{a}n begat \Jacob{}\fnJacob{}, \\
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\VS{16} and \Jacob{}\fnJacob{} begat \Joseph the husband of \Mary, \\
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by whom\footnote{``whom'' is feminine, thus referring to \Mary}
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was born \Iesous the [one] being called the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One].
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\VS{17} Therefore all the generations from \Abraam until \David [are] fourteen generations,
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and from \David until the Babulṓnos exile [are] fourteen generations,
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and from the Babulṓnos exile until the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One are] fourteen generations.
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\subsubsection{The Birth of \Iesous the Anointed [One]}
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\VS{18} Now the birth of \Iesous the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One] was thus:
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\Mary his mother having been betrothed to \Joseph, before they came together%
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\footnote{The connotation of the Greek is `before they came together in marital and domestic union'.
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}
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she was found having [life] in the belly by the Holy Spirit.
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\VS{19} And \Joseph her husband-to-be, being just,
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and not wishing to put her to open shame%
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\footnote{In those days, being pregnant out of wedlock
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could get you stoned to death (see Deut.22:22).
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In the Jewish context, ``full betrothal was so binding that its breaking required a certificate of divorce,
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and the death of one party made the other a widow or widower''.},
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purposed to dismiss her secretly.
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\VS{20} So having pondered these [things],
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behold [an] angel of the Lord in a dream appeared to him saying:
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\Joseph son of \David, you should not fear to take to yourself \Mary your wife.
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For what has been conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit.
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\VS{21} And she will bring forth [a] son,
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and you will call his name \Iesous%
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\footnote{In the Septuagint, \Iesous (a.k.a. Joshua) is the name of he who succeeded \Moses,
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leading the \Israelites across the Jordan River into the promised land.
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},
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for he himself will save his people from their sins.
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\VS{22} This all came about so that the [things] said by the Lord
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through the prophet be fulfilled when he says\footnote{Isa.7:13--15}:
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\begin{verse}
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\VS{23} Behold a virgin\fnParthenos{}
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will have [life] in the belly \\
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And will bring forth [a] son, \\
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And they shall call his name ``Emmanuel''
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\footnote{Jesus is never actually called "Emmanuel" elsewhere in the NT."
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Note the grammar: at v.\,21 the angel tells \Joseph directly, "\emph{you} shall call his name Jesus";
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here at v.\,23, quoting \Isaiah 7:14, it shifts to "\emph{they} shall call his name Emmanuel" —
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a general pronouncement, not an instruction.
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Like \Isaiah's own symbolically named children (e.g.\ Maher-shalal-hash-baz),
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`Emmanuel' functions as a prophetic title announcing what the birth means (``God with us''),
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not the boy's actual name.}
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\end{verse}
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which is, being translated: ``God [is] with us.''
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\VS{24} And \Joseph having arisen from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord ordered,
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and took to himself his wife.
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\VS{25} And he did not know her until she brought forth [a]%
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\footnote{``[a] son'' \sinaiticus{}B; ``her first born son'': D\koine \hesychian{} all}
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son, and she called his name \Iesous.
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