MANY EXCELLENT BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN EXPOUNDING TEACHING ON THE `42nd GENERATION` -
MATTIYAHU: CH.1 vs. 17: "SO ALL THE GENERATIONS FROM AVRAHAM TO DAWID ARE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS: AND FROM DAWID UNTIL THE CARRYING AWAY INTO BAVEL ARE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS: AND FROM THE CARRYING AWAY INTO BAVEL TO THE MOSHIACH ARE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS."
AND I SUPPOSE THAT VERY FEW CAN EQUAL OR EXCEL THAT OF ONE OF THE BEST OF THESE EXPOSITORS, THE REVEREND BILL BRITTON OF USA, WHOSE BOOK `THE 42ND GENERATION` EXPOUNDED ON THE TEACHING THAT THE `MISSING` 42nd GENERATION OF MATTITYAHU CH.1 v. 1-16, ARE THE SPIRITUAL, BORN-AGAIN, BLOODWASHED OVERCOMERS OF GILYAH`NA (REVELATIONS) CH. 2:27-28 AND THE MANCHILD (OVERCOMERS) OF CH. 12 OF THAT SAME SCROLL OF GILYAH`NA.
NEVERTHELESS, EVEN THOUGH ONE MAY ACCEPT THE `MANCHILD-OVERCOMERS-MANIFESTED SONS OF GOD` THEOLOGY OF REV. BRITTON IN HIS EXPOSITION ON THE 42ND GENERATION, (WHETHER BASED ON THIS VERSE OF MATTITYAHU OR ON OTHER SCRIPTURES, KNOWING THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL `HINTS` OR `LEVELS` OF INTERPRETATION OF HEBREW SACRED SCRIPTURE) IN ORDER THAT SCRIPTURE BE ALWAYS SHOWN TO BE EXACT AND TRUE, WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE ROOTS OF YAHUSHUA`S GENEOLOGY TO DISCOVER WHY THERE `APPEARS` TO BE A DISCREPENCY IN THE WRITTEN GENEOLOGY OF MATTITYAHU CHAPTER 1.
FOR, AS ONE CAN CLEARLY SEE, THERE ARE ONLY 41 GENERATIONS MENTIONED IN THE MATTITYAHU RECORD OF YAHUSHUA`S GENEOLOGY (VERSES 1-16) IN MOST WESTERN BIBLES.
(14 FROM ABRAHAM TO JESSE;
14 FROM DAVID TO JECHONIA;
AND 13 FROM SALATHIEL TO YAHUSHUA)
AND, OF COURSE, AS IS USUALLY THE CASE, THE MAJORITY OF WESTERN CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE NEVER BOTHERED TO COUNT THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF GENERATIONS RECORDED IN MATTITYAHU`S SCROLL ARE TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THE `SEEMING` DISCREPANCY` AND EVEN THOUGH SOME MAY HAVE NOTICED, THEY HAVE PROMPTLY `FORGOTTEN` THE `PROBLEM` IN ORDER NOT BE BE LEFT `CONFUSED` OR AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN THE `SEEMING` DISCREPANCY.
NEVERTHELESS, OF COURSE, THE ENEMIES OF CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM, ESPECIALLY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM, NEVER MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY, METICULOUSLY STUDY THE JUDAEO/CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES, IN ORDER TO FIND DISCREPENCIES AND ERROR, AND TO THEIR GREAT GLEE, REJOICE AND MOCK WHEN THEY THINK THEY HAVE POUNCED ON ERROR WHEN THEY COME ACROSS SUCH PASSAGES AS THOSE WHICH DEAL WITH YAHUSHUA`S ANCESTRY.
BUT EVEN THEY, MILITANT ISLAM, IN THEIR RUSH TO MOCK AND SCOFF AT JUDAEO/CHRISTIANITY, FAIL MISERABLY OFTEN-TMES, IN THEIR EFFORT AT BIBLICAL EXPOSITION
AND, SINCE RABBI SHAUL, WRITING IN HIS 2nd LETTER (TIMOTHEOUS BET) TO THE YOUNG TIMOTHEOUS, DECLARED,
"ALL SCRIPTURE (KEETVAY HAKADOSH) IS ELOHIM-BREATHED, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR TEACHING, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT THE MAN OF YAHUWEH MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY FURNSHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS." -
THEN WE CAN BE ABSOLUTELY ASSURED, ONCE AGAIN, THAT ANY `SEEMING` TEXTUAL DISCREPENCY OR ERROR MUST ONCE AGAIN MELT AWAY IN THE LIGHT OF TRUE BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND UNDERSTANDING AND THE TRUTH BLAZE FORTH ONCE AGAIN.
FOR INDEED ALL SCRIPTURE IS INSPIRED OF GOD AND INCAPABLE OF ERROR
ONE SHOULD NEVER BE AFRAID OR ASHAMED OF TACKLING `SEEMING` DISCREPENCIES IN SACRED SCRIPTURE, AND GETTING TO GRIPS WITH SUCH FOR IT IS WRITTEN,
"STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDED NOT BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH."
(KJV: TIMOTHEOUS BET: 2 vs.15)
COME THEN, AND LET US RETURN TO THE SCRIPTURES IN QUESTION, MATTITYAHU CHAPTER 1: vs.1-17 AND LET SCRIPTURE INTERPRET ITSELF:
LET US FOCUS THEN ON THE 16th. VERSE OF THIS CHAPTER FOR HERE-IN LIES THE ANSWER TO THE SEEMING PUZZLE, AND AS WE DO LET US CONSIDER SEVERAL TRANSLATIONS OF THIS VERSE.
"AND JACOB BEGAT JOSEPH THE HUSBAND OF MARY, OF WHOM WAS BORN JESUS, WHO IS CALLED CHRIST"
(KING JAMES VERSION).
"AND YAAKOV BEGAT YOSEPH. THIS YOSEPH WAS THE GOWRA/GUARDIAN OF MIRYAM, FROM WHOM WAS BORN YAHUSHUA, WHO IS CALLED THE MOSHIACH"
(RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION:RABBI MOSHE YOSEPH KONIUCHOWSKY).
"AND YA`ACOB ((JACOB) BEGAT YOSEF THE GOWRA (GUARDIAN) OF MIRIAM, OF WHOM WAS BORN YAHUSHUA, WHO IS CALLED MESSIAH."
(ABRAHAMIC-FAITH STUDY SCRIPTURES:RABBI SIMON ALTAF).
"YAQUB FATHERED YOSIP, THE GAWRA/KINSMAN OF MARYAM, FROM WHOM WAS BORN YESHUA WHO IS CALLED MSHIKHA"
(PESHITTA-ARAMAIC INTERLINEAR NEW TESTAMENT: PAUL D. YOUNAN)
YOU WILL HAVE NOTED THAT IN 3 OF THE ABOVE TRANSLATIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURES THE WORD `GOWRA` IS USED IN REGARD TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOSEPH AND MARY. THESE THREE TRANSLATIONS ARE BASED ON THE PESHITTA GOSPEL OF ST MATTHEW.
NOW, IN ORDER TO GO BACK TO THE VERY ROOTS OF SACRED SCRIPTURE, IN OUR QUEST FOR TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS VERSE WE NEED TO RETURN BACK, FURTHER THAN THE GREEK OR EVEN THE HEBREW TRANSLATIONS, AND BACK TO THE ARAMAIC WRITINGS, FOR IT IS THERE THAT WE FIND THE ANSWER WE ARE SEEKING. FOR THE GOSPELS WERE WRITTEN FIRST IN THE LANGUAGE OF ARAMAIC, THE LANGUAGE OF OUR MAR-YAH, YAHUSHUA, AND HIS DISCIPLES, THEN TRANSLATED INTO HEBREW, THEN GREEK, LATIN AND FINALLY IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH
HISTORY OF THE PESHITTA.
TO DIGRESS FOR ONE MOMENT, IN ORDER TO CONFIRM THIS, LET US HEAR WHAT ONE LEARNED SCHOLAR (AMONG MANY) HAS SAID ON THIS SUBJECT:
The Peshitta is the official Bible of the Church of the East. The name Peshitta in Aramaic means "Straight", in other words, the original and pure New Testament. The Peshitta is the only authentic and pure text which contains the books in the New Testament that were written in Aramaic, the Language of Mshikha (the Messiah) and His Disciples.
In reference to the originality of the Peshitta, the words of His Holiness Mar Eshai Shimun, Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East, are summarized as follows:
QUOTE:
"With reference to....the originality of the Peshitta text, as the Patriarch and Head of the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East, we wish to state, that the Church of the East received the scriptures from the hands of the blessed Apostles themselves in the Aramaic original, the language spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and that the Peshitta is the text of the Church of the East which has come down from the Biblical times without any change or revision."
Mar Eshai Shimun
by Grace, Catholicos Patriarch of the East
April 5, 1957
END OF QUOTE.
ARAMAIC, LIKE IT`S DIRECT SEMITIC DESCENDANTS HEBREW AND ARABIC, IS WRITTEN FROM RIGHT TO LEFT.
IT IS THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE OF THE SEMITIC FAMILY GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES THE ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, CHALDEANS, ARAMEANS, HEBREWS AND ARABS.
IN FACT, A LARGE PART OF THE HEBREW AND ARABIC LANGUAGES IS BORROWED FROM ARAMAIC, INCLUDING THE ALPHABET.
THE MODERN HEBREW (SQUARE) SCRIPT IS CALLED "ASHURI"; `ASHURI` IS THE HEBREW NAME FOR `ASSYRIAN`,
THE NAME BEING USED TO SIGNIFY THE ANCESTOR OF THE ASSYRIANS, ASHUR THE SON OF SHEM, THE SON OF NOAH (GENESIS 10:22).
ARAMAIC IS QUOTED IN THE VERY FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, BERESHEIT (GENESIS) IN CHAPTER 31:47.
IN FACT MANY PORTIONS OF THE `FIRST COVENANT` ARE PENNED ORIGINALLY IN ARAMAIC, INCLUDING DANIEL CH. 2:4 THROUGH TO CHAPTER 7.
NOW, AS WE HAVE NOTED THE WORD `GOWRA` IS USED IN THE ABOVE ARAMAIC-BASED TRANSLATIONS OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. MATTHEW IN REGARD TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOSEPH AND MARY.
AN ARAMAIC WORD WHICH, DEPENDING ON THE CONTEXT OF THE VERSE IN WHICH IT IS FOUND, CAN MEAN, GUARDIAN, HUSBAND, FATHER, HEAD OF THE HOUSE.
UNFORTUNATELY, IN THE TRANSLATION INTO GREEK OF THIS ARAMAIC WORD `GOWRA`, THE PROPER CONTEXTUAL TRANSLATION OF THE WORD `GOWRA` WAS NOT FOLLOWED AND MISUNDERSTANDING AND CONFUSION HAS FOLLOWED WHICH HAS LASTED NIGH ON 2.000 YEARS AND STUMPED EVEN SOME OF THE `BEST MINDS` OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS AS WELL AS THE INTELLECTUAL MINDS OF BIBLE-EXPOSITORS OF THE 18TH-21ST CENTURY..
NOW, ALTHOUGH THE WORD `GOWRA` HAS BEEN, TRADITIONALLY, TRANSLATED AS `HUSBAND` HOWEVER THE MAIN SEMITIC WORD FOR `HUSBAND` IS `BALLAH`,
AND EXAMPLES OF THIS CAN BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE RENEWED COVENANT SUCH AS ST. MATTHEW 1:19; ST.LUKE 2:36; ROMANS 7:2-3; AND EPHESIANS 5:33; ETC, ETC.
ONE WONDERS WHY, THEREFORE, ST. MATTHEW WOULD USE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS, IE, GOWRA AND BALLAH IN THE SAME PORTION OF HOLY WRIT TO REFER TO MARY`S HUSBAND JOSEPH.
FOR EXAMPLE;
ST MATTHEW CH. 1 VERSE 16 USES THE WORD `GOWRA` ;
AND ST. MATTHEW CH. 1 VERSE 19 USES AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ARAMAIC WORD FOR HUSBAND, IE... `BALLAH`
"AND JACOB BEGAT JOSEPH THE GOWRA (GUARDIAN) OF MARY, OF WHOM WAS BORN JESUS, WHO IS CALLED CHRIST" ....CH 1:16
"THEN JOSEPH HER BALLAH (HUSBAND) BEING A JUST MAN, AND NOT WILLING TO MAKE HER A PUBLIC EXAMPLE, WAS MINDED TO PUT HER AWAY PRIVILY" ... CH 1:19
WELL, OF COURSE THE SIMPLE TRUTH AS TO WHY HE USED 2 DIFFERENT WORDS IS BECAUSE IN ONE PLACE, VERSE 16, HE IS REFERRING TO A CERTAIN JOSEPH AS BEING THE FATHER OR GUARDIAN OF MARY, WHILST IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE 19 HE WAS REFERRING TO THE JOSEPH WHO WAS THE HUSBAND OF MARY.
IN SIMPLE TERMS TWO DIFFERENT JOSEPHS ARE HERE MENTIONED.
ONE HER FATHER/GUARDIAN AND ONE HER HUSBAND.
NOW ONE NEED NOT BE SURPRISED ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY JOSEPHS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE, BOTH IN THE FIRST COVENANT AS WELL AS THE RENEWED COVENANT, IE; JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND JOSEPH CALLED BARSABAS WHO WAS SURNAMED JUSTUS.
IN VERSE 16 THE CONTEXTUAL USE OF THE WORD GOWRA DETERMINES IT SHOULD BE TRANSLATED AS `FATHER` BECAUSE THE CONTEXT IS REGARDING GENEOLOGY.
IN VERSE 19 THE CONTEXTUAL USE OF THE WORD `BALLAH` DETERMINES IT SHOULD BE TRANSLATED AS `HUSBAND` BECAUSE THE CONTEXT IS THAT OF MARRIAGE.
WHEN WE TAKE NOTE OF THIS WONDERFUL EMERGING TRUTH, WE THEN SEE CLEARLY THAT ST. MATTHEW MADE NO MISTAKE WHEN HE SAID THAT...
"FROM THE CARRYING AWAY INTO BABYLON UNTO CHRIST ARE FOURTEEN GENERATIONS"
ALSO, ANOTHER MISCONCEPTION IS CLEARED UP WHEN WE SEE THE TRUTH OF THIS SCRIPTURE, FOR THE THEOLOGICALLY ACADEMIC STANCE TAKEN CONCERNING THIS GENEOLOGY IN ST. MATTHEW IS THAT IT IS THE GENEOLOGY OF JOSEPH, THE HUSBAND OF MARY, WHEREAS THE TRUTH IS THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE GENEOLOGY OF MARY.
ST. LUKE IN HIS GOSPEL THEREFORE GIVES THE GENEOLOGY OF JOSEPH THE HUSBAND OF MARY AND NOT THAT OF MARY, AS IS WIDELY BELIEVED.
THIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT BOTH MARY AND JOSEPH WERE DESCENDANTS OF KING DAVID, ALBEIT THROUGH DIFFERENT LINES.
WHAT CAN WE SAY BUT THAT:
"ALL SCRIPTURE (KEETVAY HAKADOSH) IS ELOHIM-BREATHED, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR TEACHING, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT THE MAN OF YAHUWEH MAY BE COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY FURNSHED UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS."
AND AGAIN:
"STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDED NOT BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH."
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