The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
Adam was our common father in the flesh, Abraham the father of the faithful. The first broke covenant and made us all miserable; the second received the covenant of grace by which we may all be made happy. See to it that by faith you become seed of Abraham, grafted into the good olive, not branches of that wild olive we are by nature.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
The sons of Javan - "But the sons of Macedon, Alsu, and Tarsus, Ilation, and Dardania, or, according to others, Elisha, Alam, Titsas, Achzavia, and Dardania, Ridom, and Chamen, and Antioch." So says this Targum, which I shall henceforth designate by the letter T.
1Ch 1:5-23 The peoples and races descended from the sons of Noah. - These are enumerated according to the table in Gen 10; ; but our author has omitted not only the introductory and concluding remarks (Gen 10:1, Gen 10:21, Gen 10:32), but also the historical notices of the founding of a kingdom in Babel by Nimrod, and the distribution of the Japhetites and Shemites...
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:5-23