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uagiot version of the Old Testament. — Some think that the name has crept into St Luke's Gospel by the error of some ' transcriber, who knew nothing of Hebrew, and only knew the old Testament from the Septuagint version, and that St. Luke originally did not insert Cainan's name. — Tliis last solution is maintained by Spanheim, Capellus, Grotius, Calovius, Rivetus, Leigh, and Surenhusius, and is perhaps the most probable one. One argument in support of it is the fact that the name is omitted in Beza's manuscript, though it must be admitted that on this point his manuscript stands almost alon%.
In leaving the difficult subject of these questions connected with our Lord's genealogy, we shall do well to ponder the sensible remarks of Mr. Burgon : " It is humbly suggested that a few difficulties of this class may have been suffered to find place in Holy Writ, in order to exercise the faith of persons who, while they feel such intellectual trials keeply, are but little affected by those which imperil the salvation of the ordinary class of mankind."