To: FourtySeven; BibChr
I know just the person to ping to assure a quick response.
2 posted on
11/20/2003 10:46:10 AM PST by
FormerLib
To: FormerLib
Thanks! Hopefully he'll be able to help. This is truly something I'm struggling with and would like an answer.
To: FourtySeven
To: FormerLib
Thanks for thinking of me, ping anytime -- but this has just never been an issue to me, nor of particular interest. Biblical genealogies frequently "hit the highlights," and designedly so (cf., right at the start, Genesis 5:4). In a sermon the other day, I referred to something like "our great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Adam." My audience all knew my intent was not that they count up each "great" and deduce how long ago I believed Adam lived. Plus, it's come to be pretty well-known that the Hebrew and Greek words translated "begat" can mean "fathered," or "(ultimately) fathered" i.e. a generation or two later.
Thanks again for the ping.
Dan
9 posted on
11/20/2003 5:02:50 PM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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