A Genealogy, Really? | Gospel of Matthew
John Mark Comer Teachings
The 14 Generations of David
Matthew 1:17 says Jesus is the one, that all of the Psalms and prophets have been pointing over the horizon to for hundreds of years. The 14 generations are a literary device called a gamatria used in ancient Hebrew cultures where numbers have a symbolic meaning. In written Hebrew, there are no vowels, only consonants. So it's Dalette, which has a numerical value of four, then Vav, which also has a numerical values of four for a total of what? Fourteen.
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