tiere 15 amonyſt Criticks a little diſpute, hether our bleffed Lord at his Baptiſm (after which he ſoon began his publick Miniſtry 1 was full #h1:t; years of Age aa 2nd ag 08 0g in the Greek, give occation to the doubt. Thoſe whs judge that he was thirty com- pl-at, conceive thai the age before which the Prictts and Lovites did a9 Servicc 1n the Tabernacle of God, who Numb. 4. 3. command- ec tne number of them to be t.ken from thirty years ofd t9 fifty, and it was done accordingly, v. 34, 35. Ye. David in the latter end of bis Life ſo numbered them, 1 Chr. 23. 3. when their number (of that Age) was thirty eight thouſand, 1et 1m that Chapter, v. 24- a::d 27, we find them numbreu from Twenty rears old and upward Cbut palſivly, that was for tore more itt. riour Service. ) [n Contor- mity to this, moft think that both Fobn the Baptitt, and Chriit en- tred not upon their Puviick Miniſtry, till thev were of that Age, but whether they wcre thirty v£3's f Age Complear, or Current 15 - queſtion, but fo little 1 002 + \-ferves no gre? Study torceiwive ; the two qual!fying Wor: gg and a48Y Sue!05 would incline one to think Thriſt was but T.zty years of Aye Current, which is ad- vantaged by what others tell us, that the ews ordinarily called a Child, two or three zears 0d, 24 foon as it Cid but ctr upon its ſecond or third year. Some think our Saviour was Ten Months above Twenty-nine years of Age when he.w:: 2Bavrized, atter which he was tempted ofthe Devii forty Das, Lotore he enrred the Pablick Miniſtry ; but theſe arc "7 5. [Boing (Cas was ſuppoſed ) the Son of Foſeph. ) Joſeph was '«:1 1115 Natural Fther, tho, lo ſuppoted by the Jews, Zoſeph being 1: deed his Legal Father being Married to the Virgin when our Saviour was Porn, Marth. 5. 20.
24 Which was the ſon of Matthat, which was the ſor 6f Levi, which was the ſor of Melchi, which was the ſor of Janna, which was :he ſon of Joſeph,
25 Which was the ſon of Mattathias, which was the
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ſon of Amos, which was the ſon of Naum, which was the ſon of Efli, which was the ſon of Nagge,
26 Which was the ſon of Maath, which was the ſor of Mattathias, which was the ſon of Semei, Which was the ſon of Joſeph, which was ehe ſon of Juda,
18 And many other things in hb exhortation preach- cd he unto the people.
See the Notes on Watth, 3. 11, 12. and on Mar. 1,7, 8. John the Bapti$ in theſe Verſes doth not only alſure them, that he w:!3 not the Chriſt, ut alſo lets them know, that Chriſt was coming a- mongſt them, and that he waz more excellent than he, and ſhould Baptize them with the Holy Ghoſt, and with Fire 3 with Fire as the $ mbol of the Pay Ghoſt ; ſo ſome underſtand it, expounding it as a Prophecy of the deſcent of the Holy Ghoſt, Afs 2. 3. cthers paſſibly better expound it of the Holz GhoF working in the Souls of Believers as Fire, Purging them, and Burning up therr Luſts, ans Corruptions. | And many other things in his Exhnrtation he Preached unto the People.) By which Words the Evangeliſt let us know, that what he and the other Evangcli: have Reported concerning John's Preaching, was but the Sum of it.
19 But Herod the Tetrarch being reproved by * him, for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the
evils which Herod had done;
20 Added yet this above all, that he ihut up John In priſon.
Theſe two Verſes ſufficiently Confirm to us, that we-are not to expett to find the ſeveral paſſages in the Goſpel concerning John the Baptiſt, ſet down according to the order of time, 1n which they happened, for. the Evangzliſt ſets down the inpriſonment of John, before the Baptiſm of Chriit mentioned in the two next Verſes, which we know could not be as to the order of t1me, our Saviour being Baptized by John. John was in ſo gre?! Repute, that Herod hinfelf heard him, did many things, and heard him zladly, Mar. 6, 25. But John was 3 faithful Preacher, and couid not but reprove him for his wicked Courſes, particularly for his Inceſtuous taking
of is Brother Phifips Wife 3 for he was alive when -he- took her,
ithe true which Hiſtorians tell us; that -Fokn was impriſoned 1n
the fizteenth Year of Tiberizzs Ceſar, and Philip died not till the
tyenticth, however, his Erother leaving iſſue (for we read Herodias
1114 a Daughter, Matth, 14.) it was unlaifyui for him to have Mar- Gol, 2-
27 Which was the fon of Joanna, which was the ſon of Rheſa, which was the ſon of Zorobabel, which was the ſon of Salathiel, which was the ſon of Neri,
238 Which was the ſon of MeIchi, waich was the ſon of Addi, which was the ſon of Coſam, which was the ſor of Elmodam,which was the ſoz of Er,
29 Which was the ſon of Joſe, which was the for of Eliezer,which was the ſon of Jorim, which was the ſor of Matthar,which was the ſoz of Levi,
30 Which was the ſor of Simeon, which was the ſoz of Juda, which was the ſon of Joſeph, which was the ſon of Jonan, which was the ſon of Eliakim,
31 Which was the ſon of Melea,which was the ſor of Menan,which was the ſon of Mattatha, which was 7/e ſoa of * Nathan, which was * zhe ſor of David,
32 * Which was the ſon of Jeiſe, which was the ſor of Obed, which was the ſoz of Booz, which was the ſox of Salmon, which was the ſo of Naaſſon, =
33 Which was the ſon of Aminadab, which was the or of Aram, which was the ſon of Eſrom, which was ze ſon of Phares, which was the ſor of Juca, :
34 Which was the ſon of Jacob, which was te fon of Iſaac, which was the ſo of Abraham, which was e/2 ſor of Thara, which was the ſoz of Nachor,
35 Which was the ſon of Saruch, which was zve ſon of Ragan, which was the ſon of Phalec, which was che ſor of Heber,which was the ſoz of Sala,
36 Which was the ſon of Cainan, which was the ſor: of Arphaxad, * which was theſon of Sem, which was the ſan of Noe, which waszhe ſon of Lamech,
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37 Which was the ſor of Methuſala, which was the ſon of Enoch, which was the ſon of Jared, which was the ſon of Maleleel, which was 7he ſon of Cainan,
28 Which was the ſon of Enos, which was the ſon of Seth,which was the ſon of Adam, which was the ſon of God.