The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
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 Jebusite, &c.--At Ch1 1:14-17 the names are not those of individuals, but of people who all sprang from Canaan; and as several of them became extinct or were amalgamated with their brethren, their national appellations are given instead of the personal names of their ancestors.
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